Fatal Crash

Okanagan Connector crash victims identified by coroner

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The B.C. Coroners Service has released the names of three people killed in a collision Nov. 6 on the Okanagan Connector. The victims have been identified as Sean Robert Anderson, 40, of Westbank, Kim Christine Dunstan, 26, of West Kelowna, and her brother Jarrett Francisco Dunstan, of Westbank. Anderson was driving a rented...

Crash on Okanagan Connector kills three people

MERRITT – Three people in a U-Haul van were killed last night on the Highway 97C when it slammed into the back of a semi transporting crushed cars. The crash happened at about 8:45 p.m., Nov. 6, about six kilometres east of Merritt, according to a media release from RCMP Central Interior Traffic Services. “The...

Crash into tree claims life of Chase man

CHASE – A Chase man is dead after crashing his pickup into a tree in Chase last night. RCMP were called to the single vehicle crash on Notch Hill Road, near McKenzie Road, at 6:40 p.m., Nov. 4, according to a media release. The 60-year-old driver, and lone occupant, was pronounced dead at the scene....

Coquihalla crash near Kamloops claims a life

KAMLOOPS – A crash on the Coquihalla Highway near Kamloops Friday afternoon claimed the life of the driver. RCMP say a SUV driven by an unidentified woman drifted of the highway south of the city, Sept. 11. She was the only one in the vehicle. The woman was driving northbound when the SUV left the...

Alberta man dies in Okanagan Connector crash

MERRITT - A man who died on Highway 97 in an nearly morning single vehicle roll-over last week has been identified. Daniel Thomas Semeniuk, 25, died when the vehicle he was driving left the road and rolled, according to the B.C. Coroners Service. The Red Deer man was the only occupant in the vehicle, which...

UPDATE: Two men killed in Vernon dirt bike crash

VERNON – Two men are dead after the dirt bike they were on hit a park utility trailer on East Vernon Road in Vernon Sunday morning. RCMP were called to the crash at about 6:30 a.m., June 28, when a neighbour found the men, 23 and 24 years of age. “Early indications in this investigation...

UPDATE: Fatal crash on Trans Canada west of Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – One person was killed in a rollover on Highway 1 in the Cherry Creek area west of Kamloops early this morning. RCMP say the pickup truck rolled at about 2:45 a.m., May 23, near Beaton Road. “Passing motorists discovered a pickup truck resting on its roof in the centre of the highway,” Sgt....

Armstrong-area man killed in Vernon car crash

VERNON – A 57-year-old man from the Armstrong-area died after crashing his car into a pair of parked cars and then smashing into a power pole on Saturday evening. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says they were called to the crash, in the 2000-block of 42 Avenue in Easthill, around 9:05 p.m., on Friday, May 1....

Man hit by pickup and killed in Keremeos identified

KEREMEOS – The identity of the young man hit and killed while crossing the highway near Keremeos last weekend has been released. Samuel Houle, 20, of Quebec was walking across Highway 3, just south of the intersection with Highway 3A, Sunday night, April 17, when he was struck by a pickup truck, according to a...

UPDATE: Cache Creek man identified in fatal single vehicle crash

UPDATE: 12:25 p.m., March 20, 2015 The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the driver as Donald George Alford. 4:27 p.m., March 18, 2015 ASHCROFT - A man is dead after the taxi he was driving crashed into a sheer rock face on Highway 97C Tuesday afternoon. Ashcroft RCMP say the 63-year-old Cache Creek man was...

UPDATE: Highway 1 near Golden reopens after fatal crash

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - One person is dead and another in critical condition after a serious crash involving two tractor trailers that shut down Highway 1 from Golden to Revelstoke overnight. United Towing was called out to a head-on collision between two semis west of Golden just before 11 p.m. Both units were on fire at the...

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...

Icy road factor in fatal Okanagan Connector crash

WEST KELOWNA – A 62-year-old Peachland man is dead after the pickup truck he was passenger in plunged down an embankment on Highway 97C Saturday afternoon. RCMP say the 50-year-old driver lost control on an icy section of the road near the Brenda Mine Road exit around 1:45 p.m. Investigators don’t think speed is a...