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UPDATE: Highway 6 reopens following Wednesday morning car crash
VERNON - Highway 6 just west of Lumby has reopened following a car accident Wednesday morning. The highway was closed in both directions while emergency officials attended the scene. Vehicles were detoured around the accident via Whitevale Road. To contact the reporter for this story, email Charlotte Helston at chelston@infonews.ca or call 250-309-5230. To contact...
Teens learn hard way yellow light means stop not hit the gas
KELOWNA - Two teens involved in a serious collision at a Kelowna intersection managed to escape with only minor injuries Sunday night. Kelowna RCMP say an officer came upon the accident at Harvey Avenue and Spall Road at 8:09 p.m. Nov. 30. Witnesses say a black Chevy Impala traveling west on Harvey was moving fast,...
UPDATE: 3 people injured on Coq car crash; 2 critically
KAMLOOPS – A car crash on Highway 5 north of Merritt sent three people to hospital and slowed southbound traffic for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon. Two were transported by air ambulance to Royal Inland Hospital in critical condition, while the third person had non-life threatening injuries and was taken hospital in Kamloops by...
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...
Okanagan hockey refs flee burning car
ENDERBY - Three Okanagan hockey referees are lucky to be alive after an off-ice collision Friday night. Jeremy Silzer, 24, of Vernon says he and two other refs, one from Winfield and one from Kelowna, were returning home from a Junior B hockey game in Sicamous around 10 p.m. They were just rounding a corner...
Bear dies in four-car crash in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Darkness and the animal’s natural camouflage are listed by police as the reasons behind a four-car crash involving a bear in Kelowna Sunday night. At about 8:20 p.m. RCMP were called to the crash right by Duck Lake, RCMP say. Each of the four vehicles hit the bear, one after the other. Police...
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...
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...
Baby, three others taken to hospital after rollover near Vernon
VERNON – The hunt is on for the driver of a car who may have caused a rollover on Highway 6 between Vernon and Lumby Friday afternoon. Four people, including an infant, were taken to Vernon Jubilee Hospital with minor injuries after the car they were in ended up on its roof in the ditch,...
UPDATE: Manitoba woman dies in crash on Highway 97; speed may be factor
KELOWNA – A head-on crash on Highway 97 north of the Kelowna Airport claimed the life of a Manitoba woman and closed the route in both directions for almost 5 hours on Saturday. Just before 8:30 a.m., emergency crews arrived on the scene to find a Dodge pick-up on it’s side and engulfed in flames,...
High speed a factor in Lake Country car crash
LAKE COUNTRY – A young Winnipeg woman lost control of her car on a sharp curve on the Pelmewash Parkway Saturday morning. RCMP say the woman, 20, was travelling at a high rate of speed north bound on the old highway around 8:30 a.m. when she reached the on ramp to Highway 97. “Witnesses say...
Midnight head-on crash leaves Chase man dead
KELOWNA – RCMP are looking for the cause of the head-on crash near Pritchard which claimed the life of a Chase man. The crash happened on the Trans-Canada about two kilometres west of Pritchard just after midnight on July 17. A pick-up truck being driven eastbound by John Findlay Linklater, 58, was involved in a...
UPDATE: Fiery crash leads to 9.6 ha wildfire near Osoyoos
OSOYOOS – Two semis crashed on Highway 3 northwest of Osoyoos around 5 p.m. Wednesday sparking a grass fire that threatened a nearby home and sent one of the truck drivers to hospital. A 46-year-old Kelowna man behind the wheel of the logging truck was taken to Kelowna General by air ambulance. He is seriously...
It was falling on ice that did him in, not the two car crashes
PENTICTON - Four years ago, Leon Ray was driving a bus up the road to Apex Mountain Resort. A car driving down the hill lost control and collided with his bus. No one was injured. Then another vehicle coming down the mountain lost control and crashed into the bus. Again, no one was injured. Police...