iN VIDEO: Williams Lake drunk driver injured in low speed crash caught on camera

BC Highway Patrol captured a “strange crash” in Williams Lake that ended with head injury for a drunk driver.

The drivers in a white Ford F-250 and a grey Toyota Camry were spotted without seatbelts on Mackenzie Avenue South at 3:00 p.m. on July 20, according to an RCMP media release.

The BC Highway Patrol officer who spotted the seatbelt violations turned around to pull them over when the intoxicated Camry driver rear-ended the F-250.

“The BC Highway Patrol officer started by checking the driver of the Toyota Camry. His head was bleeding liberally after smashing into his own windshield,” Cpl. Michael McLaughlin said in the release. “The driver blew two fail readings on an Approved Screening Device. Those readings were evidence that he was impaired by alcohol.”

The 28-year-old Williams Lake man driving the Camry was given a driving prohibition, the vehicle was impounded, and he garnered $535 in fines for failing to wear a seatbelt and driving without due care.

The 19-year-old Big Creek woman in the F-250 wasn’t hurt in the crash since she put on her seatbelt presumably when the RCMP turned around to pull her over, but she still received a ticket for failing to wear a seatbelt.

“This relatively low-speed collision, captured by police video, shows the importance of seatbelt safety and driving sober,” Cpl. McLaughlin said. “The sober and belted driver walked away. The allegedly impaired driver did not see the police lights, did not react to avoid the hugely obvious truck in front of him, and would have died at highway speed.”

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Jesse Tomas

Jesse Tomas is a reporter from Toronto who joined iNFOnews.ca in 2023. He graduated with a Bachelor in Journalism from Carleton University in 2022.