Multi-vehicle crash on Coquihalla Highway claims life, others injured

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – RCMP say a man who pulled over to help after a crash on the Coquihalla Highway was killed when more vehicles set off a chain-reaction collision.

Mounties say the crash on Thursday between Hope and Merritt started when a small car collided with a northbound commercial vehicle.

No one was hurt and those in the vehicles were off to the side exchanging information when two more vehicles slammed into the initial crash.

Police say the 47-year-old resident of Salmon Arm who stopped to offer assistance was pronounced dead at the scene.

A driver and passenger from the first collision were seriously hurt and flown by air ambulance to hospital, while four others were taken to hospital by ambulance and are in stable condition.

(CHNL, The Canadian Press)