A dozen people were taken to hospital after two boats collided on Okanagan Lake\u00a0near the William R. Bennett Bridge in\u00a0Kelowna Wednesday night, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS).<\/p>\n
BCEHS says it received a call around 8:40 p.m. PT\u00a0 and sent seven ambulances, along with additional units and a supervisor.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Bowen Osoko said 12 patients\u00a0were transported to hospital, five of them in stable condition and seven in good condition.<\/p>\n
In a statement, West Kelowna RCMP said\u00a0the initial investigation determined two boats collided, with one vessel becoming lodged on top of the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the incident is under investigation, and they have confirmed\u00a0impairment and weather conditions were not factors in the crash.<\/p>\n
Central Okanagan Search and Rescue said\u00a0RCMP determined all passengers were accounted for while\u00a0the\u00a0Kelowna Fire Department removed the damaged boats from the area to ensure public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dozen people were taken to hospital after two boats collided on Okanagan Lake\u00a0near the William R. Bennett…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-103627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103627","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=103627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}