Sam Shakura and her mother started Rock House Style in 2010. Their home on the most expensive property in Kelowna, serves as both their portfolio and home., Emergency personnel at the scene of a head on collision at Vaseux Lake Provincial Park on Highway 97 on Jan. 24, 2016. An Oliver woman was taken to Kelowna General Hospital after being seriously injured in the incident. Photographer: Steve Arstad

Driver seriously injured in South Okanagan head-on crash now in stable condition

PENTICTON – The Oliver woman rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries following a head-on crash south of Okangan Falls on Sunday is in stable condition at hospital.

The investigation into the crash between the woman's Toyota Corolla and an unloaded logging truck yesterday afternoon, Jan. 24, on Highway 97 next to Vaseux Lake Provincial Park continues.

Sgt. Harold Hallet with the RCMP's South Okanagan Traffic Services says the southbound Corolla, driven by a 46-year-old Oliver woman, crossed the centre line and hit the northbound logging truck head-on.

Hallet says she is currently in stable condition at Kelowna General Hospital.

The Penticton man behind the wheel of the logging truck, which burst into flames following the collision, received minor injuries. He was treated at Penticton Regional Hospital and released.

Members of the Okanagan Falls Volunteer Fire Department extinguished the burning truck and got the woman out of the crushed Corolla.

The crash closed Highway 97 for several hours until single lane traffic could be rerouted through Vaseux Lake Provincial Park.

It is not believed weather or road conditions were factors in the incident, Hallet says.

Emergency personnel at the scene of a head-on collision at Vaseux Lake Provincial Park on Highway 97, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016., A collision involving an empty logging truck and a Toyota Corolla, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, resulted in serious injuries to the woman driving the Corolla. Photographer: Steve Arstad

To contact a reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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