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Lumby officer crashes police vehicle
CHERRYVILLE - A Lumby RCMP officer is probably feeling lucky after he survived driving his squad vehicle off the road, rolling it and hitting a tree Sunday night. The officer was on his way to investigate a report of a possible impaired driver when the accident happened at about 10:30 p.m Sept. 28. He was...
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...
Garbage truck contents catch fire during morning run
VERNON - A truck driver dumped a load of flaming garbage in the parking lot of a Vernon high school Monday morning. Vernon Fire Capt. Reinhard Mann says a Waste Management employee had picked up a load of garbage elsewhere in Vernon when he noticed smoke billowing out from the back of the truck. He...
Judge acquits dealer accused of extortion
KAMLOOPS – Attendees looking to sit in the gallery of room 5C at Kamloops Supreme Court had to undergo a bag search and scan before hearing Justice Hope Hyslop acquit Trevor Taylor, born in 1985, of his charges. Taylor - who Hyslop acknowledged as a drug dealer - was accused of robbery, extortion and using...
Divers to scour river for sunken truck and missing person
VERNON - Dive teams will attempt to recover a vehicle that plunged into the Shuswap River last month. A search for the vehicle and its registered owner — a Lumby man who is declared missing — was put off mid-June because the water was too deep and too fast for the RCMP dive team to...
Body recovered from truck submerged since June
VERNON – After waiting a month and a half for the Shuswap River to calm the South East district dive team recovered the body of a man whose truck plunged into the water. The 1994 Ford truck sank in the river on the evening of June 14. A witness said the driver veered off the...
Government truck stolen from enclosed parking lot
KAMLOOPS – The B.C. Wildfire Branch believes a truck was stolen from an enclosed government parking lot in Clearwater on Canada Day. “It’s extremely unfortunate; we’re heading into fire season” Spokesperson for the branch, Kayla Pepper, said. The truck is a 2004 F-550 crew cab used for initial fire attacks. Fire suppression equipment, including personal...
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...
Search for submerged truck and possible occupants postponed due to safety concerns
VERNON - It could be weeks before dive teams can safely search for a submerged truck and the missing person who might be inside it. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says it’s too dangerous to send divers into fast-moving Shuswap River where a truck reportedly plunged into it. A witness told police the truck went off...
UPDATE: Crash near Heffley Creek claims a life
KAMLOOPS - One person is dead after two pickup trucks crashed on Highway 5 north, north of the Rayleigh ball fields Monday afternoon. The male driver was alone in the first pickup truck, travelling north on the Yellowhead Highway, when a second southbound pickup truck crossed the centre line and crashed into him. The man...
Two Lumby teens arrested in connection with stolen truck
VERNON – RCMP have charged two men in connection with a stolen Dodge pickup truck from Lumby. The truck was reported stolen from the Lumby arena parking lot on May 29. Police received two separate reports of the truck, sighted at a Vernon Tim Horton’s and of a suspicious vehicle of the same make and model...
Food Truck Rally rolls back into Kelowna
KELOWNA – For the second year in a row, the parking lot of Prospera Place will be flooded with hundreds of hungry diners and around half a dozen trucks representing cuisine from around the world. Craig Campbell is the Communications Manager for Prospera Place and the organizer of the second annual Kelowna Food Truck Rally....
Vernon teen killed in weekend crash identified
VERNON - The boy who died in a crash on Highway 97 near Crystal Waters Road May 4 has been identified. He was Rodney Michael Boring, 14, of Vernon. Boring was the passenger in a Pontiac Sunfire involved in a collision with a full-sized pickup truck at about 3:45 p.m. Sunday. He died at the...