Car Crash

Police withdraw ticket given to Vernon scooter user involved in accident

VERNON - A Vernon woman recovering from injuries sustained when her scooter was hit by a truck was going to fight a violation ticket police handed her after the accident, but now she won’t have to. After reviewing the Motor Vehicle Act, the RCMP is rescinding the ticket issued to Patricia Parent for entering a...

Vernon RCMP investigate possibility of impaired driving in weekend crash

VERNON - Police are treating a car crash which knocked out power to hundreds of residents as an impaired driving case. The crash happened around 12:30 a.m., Saturday, April 11 when a 24-year-old woman went off Kalamalka Road in Coldstream and struck a hydro pole, RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says. Over 1,800 homes in Vernon...

Vernon firefighters come to aid of entrapped person

VERNON - Emergency crews freed two people trapped in a car after an accident Tuesday morning. According to Vernon Fire and Rescue Services, there was a two vehicle accident just after 8 a.m. in the 4300 block of 32 Street. The driver and passenger in one of the vehicles involved were trapped inside until firefighters...

Coroner releases findings into fatal Easter crash near Vernon

VERNON - A driver who crossed into the wrong lane on Highway 97 two years ago made no attempt to avoid hitting an oncoming vehicle, a coroner’s report into the deaths of three people has found. In her report, Margaret Janzen of the B.C. Coroners Service describes the 2013 Easter Sunday collision that killed Eric...

Witnesses come forward in fatal Vernon car crash

VERNON - Valuable information has come forward in an impaired driving causing death investigation. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says two men who were at the scene of a fatal accident downtown Vernon Oct. 23 contacted the detachment after a call out was posted in the media. At first, the men didn’t think they were the...

UPDATE: Three injured, one seriously, in Vernon head-on crash

VERNON – A three vehicle crash on Highway 97 just north of Vernon sent three people to hospital and closed the route in both directions for about three hours Friday afternoon. The crash happened around 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 20 at the intersection of Highway 97 and Old Kamloops Road. Two cars and a semi...

Three separate car accidents on Highway 97 south of Vernon

VERNON - Three car accidents on Highway 97 south of Vernon kept emergency crews busy Tuesday morning. The first accident happened at 7:08 a.m. and was followed by a vehicle rollover at 7:36 a.m. Not long after, Vernon Fire and Rescue Services attended a three vehicle accident also on Highway 97 south of Vernon. “It...

Two dead in Trans Canada crash near Revelstoke

KAMLOOPS – A crash on the Trans Canada near Three Valley Gap has claimed the lives of two people. A westbound tractor-trailer and an eastbound car collided between Revelstoke and Craigellachie around 1 p.m. Saturday, according a Revelstoke Times Review report. The people in the car were killed. The highway was closed for over nine...

Car crash in Vernon sends people to hospital

VERNON – A car crash on 27 Street in Vernon’s north end sent three people to hospital. Emergency crews were called to the crash at about 3:30 p.m. in the intersection of 27 Street and Anderson Way. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says a pick-up truck entered the intersection and struck a van that was making...

Driver blames black ice; West Kelowna rollover

KELOWNA – The driver and passenger walked away from a rollover in West Kelowna Monday morning. The driver lost control on black ice on Lower Glenrosa Road around 9:30 a.m. and rolled the vehicle which ended up on its roof, according to Global Okanagan. Traffic was disrupted for about an hour as crews righted the...

UPDATE: Crash on Highway 97 claims a life

KELOWNA - The crash between a semi and a SUV on Highway 97 north of the Kelowna Airport Sunday afternoon claimed the life of the driver of the SUV. The highway was closed for three hours after the head-on crash around 2 p.m. 4 kilometres north of Airport Way, according to RCMP, causing a major...

Westside car accident leaves three horses dead

VERNON - Three horses died in a collision with a truck on Westside Road over the weekend. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says a pick-up truck hit the horses around 12:10 a.m. on Dec. 13 on Westside Road near Pinecrest Road. The front end of the truck was badly damaged. Two horses died right away, and...

Crash on Highway 97 in Lake Country sends two to hospital

LAKE COUNTRY – Amazingly, no one was seriously injured in a two vehicle crash on the new section of Highway 97 in Lake Country Monday morning. RCMP Const. Jesse O’Donaghey says just before 7:30 a.m. the driver of a sedan rear-ended a SUV while both were travelling in the southbound slow lane north of Oyama....

Crash claims life of Kamloops woman

KAMLOOPS – A 30-year-old Kamloops woman died when the vehicle she was driving crashed on Shuswap Road early Sunday morning. Tk’emlups RCMP say the woman was the only one in the car when it crashed in the 3600-block of Shuswap Road at about 1 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The RCMP Southeast...