Highway rollover sends man to Kelowna General Hospital

KELOWNA – A rollover on Highway 97 early this morning has sent a 20-year-old man to hospital with serious injuries.

The man was driving a white Chevrolet Blazer northbound on the highway when it hit snow at the intersection with Leckie Road around 6:50 a.m., Kelowna RCMP says in a press release. The vehicle slid sideways before rolling onto its side and sliding into a utility pole.

The man, suffering from serious, non-life threatening injuries, had to be extracted from his badly damaged vehicle by firefighters. He is in Kelowna General Hospital in stable condition.

Police say they don’t believe alcohol was a factor in the crash but say the driver may have been driving too fast for the snowy conditions. Charges have not yet been laid.

Kelowna RCMP ask anyone who witnessed the accident and who hasn’t already spoken to police to call the detachment at 250-762-3300.

To contact a reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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