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Collision on Highway 6 in Vernon sends two to hospital
VERNON - A head-on collision Wednesday evening on Highway 6 sent two people to hospital. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says a black Volkswagen Jetta traveling west on Highway 6 around 5:30 p.m. suddenly veered into the oncoming lane near Aberdeen Road, hitting a Dodge Ram pick-up. “There was extensive front end damage to both vehicles,”...
Penticton man dies after SUV goes into lake
PENTICTON - A Penticton man died alone in his SUV after the vehicle left the road and rolled into Farleigh Lake Halloween morning. A media release from the B.C. Coroners Service states Thomas Viji Santosham, 74, was the sole occupant and driver of the SUV while travelling southeast on Farleigh Lake Road East, 12 kilometres...
Man killed in motorcycle crash identified
PENTICTON - The man killed in a motorcycle accident in Penticton over the weekend has been identified. PENTICTON - Kevin Michael Bradley Vezina, a 41-year-old man from Penticton, collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Main Street and Industrial Avenue on Saturday afternoon. He was thrown from his bike and suffered injuries which...
Safety measures sought for dangerous stretch of Highway 97
LAKE COUNTRY - In the aftermath of two fatal accidents, officials in Lake Country are calling for the addition of a concrete median between Beaver Lake Road and the Kelowna Airport. In July, an elderly couple and a 14-year-old passenger believed to be their grandson were fatally injured after crossing the centre line and colliding...
Motorcycle crash kills West Kelowna man
PENTICTON - A West Kelowna man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle into another vehicle this past weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 13, a 42-year-old motorcyclist accelerated straight through a yellow light at the same time an oncoming car was making a left-hand turn at the intersection of Main Street and Industrial Avenue. The motorcyclist...
Man taken to hospital following head-on collision in Kelowna
KELOWNA - A 22-year-old driver's alleged failure to yield to oncoming traffic caused a crash at Harvey Avenue and Richter Street last night, according to police. Mounties say the incident happened at Sept. 8 at about 8 p.m. when the driver of a Ford Mustang allegedly failed to yield to an oncoming Subaru. The cars...
Accident sends cyclist to hospital
VERNON - A cyclist was taken to hospital after colliding with a truck last Friday. Police were dispatched to the area of 39 Avenue and 32 Street around 7:50 a.m. Sept 5. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says the driver of the truck was turning right as the cyclist came up beside him. The 30-year-old cyclist...
Parole violator drives like a fool and gets arrested
KELOWNA - Two women violating parole might have gone on to violate another day if they hadn’t drawn attention to themselves Tuesday. Kelowna RCMP Const. Sheldon Herman was conducting a routine patrol along Highway 33 when he noticed a black Mustang near Bryden Road. He ran the plates and discovered the car belonged to a...
Driver slams into propane tank at Vernon gas station
VERNON - Emergency crews were called out Wednesday afternoon after a man drove into a propane tank at Super Save Gas on 25 Avenue. Cpl. Joseph Leeson with Vernon RCMP says the driver lost control and slammed into the propane tank around 1:30 p.m. after suffering an apparent medical condition. The 57-year-old was the only...
Victim’s name from fatal crash near Merritt released
MERRITT - The coroner's office has released the name of the Coquitlam passenger who died in a fatal car accident near Merritt on Sunday. She was Elizabeth Joan Savoie, 27. The driver of the vehicle, a Mazda 3 rolled the car several times before it rested in a ditch. The accident took place around 7...
Bald tires cause Coq crash
KAMLOOPS - Heavy rains created the conditions for the driver of a Ford Mustang to hydroplane on the highway, causing a crash that sent three people to hospital Thursday evening. Staff Sgt. Doug Aird says a 2011 Ford Mustang was driving in the northbound slow lane near the Inks Lake turn on the Coquihalla Highway....
Cyclist clipped near McDonalds in Armstrong
ARMSTRONG – A 16-year-old Armstrong boy will be all right after he was hit by the driver of a Mazda pickup truck across from the McDonalds on Smith Street Thursday afternoon. The teen was riding his bike on the sidewalk when he was struck by the truck coming out of a strip mall parking lot...
School bus loses brakes in busy beach parking lot
COLDSTREAM – No one was hurt when a school bus stalled, and then lost it’s brakes in the steep, and very busy, Kal Beach parking lot in Coldstream Wednesday afternoon. The 35-year-old woman from Saskatchewan was behind the wheel with her six children on board. A Vernon man following the bus up the slope in...
Cyclist on sidewalk collides with car
KELOWNA – A female cyclist was taken to KGH with minor injuries Tuesday after she collided with a car at the entrance to Future Shop. Kelowna Fire Capt. Steve Roshinsky says the woman, estimated to be in her 40’s, was travelling eastbound along Harvey Ave. Roshinsky says after the impact, she went over the hood...
Coroner identifies man who died inside runaway jeep on Big White Mountain
OSOYOOS - A man who died in a strange accident when his parked jeep rolled off a cumbling roadway on Big White Mountain near Kelowna has been identified. He was Rodolph Legault, 67, of Cawston, a small community 35 kilometres west of Osoyoos. Legault parked his jeep at the edge of Forest Service Road 201,...
Coroner identifies three people in traffic accident near Duck Lake
KELOWNA - Three people who died in a Hwy 97 traffic accident near Duck Lake have been identified by the B.C. Coroners Service. They were Harold Reinhardt Miller, 82 and his wife Violet Juline Miller, 79, both from Vernon and their great-grandson, Thomas Rhys Edward Davies, 14, from Victoria. Mr. Miller was driving the car...
Man killed trying to stop vehicle rolling off cliff
KELOWNA – An attempt to stop a vehicle from rolling off a cliff near Big White had tragic consequences for a 67-year-old Cawston man Sunday. The man, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of family, had parked his Jeep on a narrow forest service road close to a cliff. When the vehicle started rolling...
Vernon teen dies after taken off life support
KELOWNA - A Vernon teen severely injured in a tubing accident last Saturday died last night after being taken off life support. He died at 8:52 p.m. but not before donating organs to at least six people, according to the Support Miracles for Miles Facebook page, where people are invited to leave messages. "You mean...
Police seek answers in Vernon teen’s death
VERNON - Police are working to give a grieving family answers in the tragic boating death of a Vernon teen. Officers are investigating the death of Miles Wohlford, 14, who fell off his tube and was struck by the boat and its propeller June 28 on Okanagan Lake. “The investigation is to thoroughly look into...
Vigilance and caution urged on lakes following tragic boating accident
VERNON – A Vernon teenager remains in critical condition in hospital after he was run over by a powerboat on Okanagan Lake Saturday evening. Miles Wohlford, 14, was with a group of friends tubing on the northern arm of the lake off Westside Road near Mary Anns Road around 6:10 p.m. RCMP Cpl. Gerry Kovacs...
Woman killed in head-on collision
PEACHLAND – A woman was killed in a head-on collision in Peachland Thursday afternoon. The accident happened shortly after noon at the intersection of Highway 97 and Trepanier Bench Rd. RCMP Sgt. Wade Severson says a northbound SUV hit a southbound semi. Global Okanagan reports a witness says the SUV crossed the centre line and hit...
Elderly pedestrian hit crossing Dilworth
KELOWNA - Driver inattentiveness is the suspected cause of an accident that injured an elderly man on Dilworth Wednesday. Witnesses say the man, in his 80’s, was walking south down Dilworth Dr. when an SUV leaving the liquor store parking lot hit him and knocked him to the ground. Const. Paul Bentham says the man was...
Survivor of Yellowhead Hwy crash in stable condition
KAMLOOPS – A Williams Lake couple answered the phone June 9 to find out their 21-year-old son was involved in a traffic accident and transported from the scene to Vancouver General Hospital. Bradly and Shelly Methot heard Brayden was sleeping in the backseat of his friend’s pickup truck when it collided with another vehicle after...
Pedestrian struck on Hospital Hill
VERNON - A man was hit by a tractor trailer unit Wednesday afternoon on Highway 97 in Vernon. The accident occurred around 12:40 p.m. on Hospital Hill. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says the male pedestrian was taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries. The northbound lane remains closed while police investigate the incident. Traffic...