Tree falls on B.C. highway; paramedics take eight people to hospital

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. – BC Emergency Health Services says eight people were taken to hospital after two cars collided with a fallen tree on a highway north of Vancouver.

The provincial government’s DriveBC website says the tree fell on Highway 99, just north of the community of Horseshoe Bay on Wednesday.

Libby Brown of BC Emergency Health Services says two vehicles travelling south on the highway hit the tree in the early evening.

She says four ambulances sent to the scene took eight people to hospital.

Brown says none of the patients appeared to be suffering from life-threatening injuries and their transportation wasn’t considered critical or urgent.

She says the patients were in stable condition.