{"id":103439,"date":"2025-08-28T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103439\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:55:09","slug":"boat-collision-on-okanagan-lake-sends-12-people-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103439\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat collision on Okanagan Lake sends 12 people to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen people were taken to hospital Wednesday night following a boat collision on Okanagan Lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR), the Kelowna Fire Department, RCMP and emergency services were called out around 8:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110369_865_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>COSAR confirmed the collision involved two speed-boats at the south side of the WR Bennett Bridge. The two boats were going in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p>The boats were removed from the water by the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>BC Emergency Health Services says that of the 13 people injured, five were taken to hospital in stable condition, while an additional seven were taken to hospital in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP is investigating the collision.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dozen people were taken to hospital Wednesday night following a boat collision on Okanagan Lake. Central Okanagan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59458,49,48,44,59457],"class_list":["post-103439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-boat-collision","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-okanagan-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}