Highway 97c
Okanagan Connector crash shuts down westbound lanes near Kelowna
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Several early morning crashes led to road closures on area highways today. Highway 97C westbound at the junction with Highway 97 has been shut down since just after 4 a.m. because of a vehicle incident. Drive B.C. is reporting no detours and estimates the highway will reopen around 8:30 a.m. Meanwhile a second...
Chilliwack man confirmed dead following October crash on Okanagan Connector
KELOWNA - A Chilliwack man was killed when he rolled his pickup on the Okanagan Connector last month. The B.C. Coroners Service says David Roy Elias, 58, was the driver and only one in the truck, which left the highway, hit a ditch and rolled on Highway 97C about 17 kilometres west of the Pennask Summit....
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 on Okanagan Connector sends two to hospital
WEST KELOWNA – Two people were taken to hospital after their car crash on the Okanagan Connector near West Kelowna this morning. The Hyundai Genesis crashed at about 11:10 a.m., April 25, on Highway 97C just west of Trepanier Road, according to Capt. Lionel Bateman with West Kelowna Fire Rescue. He says two patients were...
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...
UPDATE: Snow hits Interior highways
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — Yes, summer is technically only nine days away and yes, it seems like a cruel joke, but there was snow on the Interior highways tonight. Environment Canada ended a severe thunderstorm watch for the Okanagan earlier this evening, but not before issuing a special weather statement warning of up to five centimetres of...