The BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) has shared more details of a crash on the Coquihalla Highway that killed two people and injured three more near Kamloops Friday.<\/p>\n
Police received reports of a vehicle travelling the wrong way in the northbound lanes south of Kamloops just before 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinutes later, and before police could intercept the wrong-way driver, a grey Dodge Ram pickup and a white Hyundai Kona hatchback collided head-on,\u201d said Cpl. Michael McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
In an update Monday, the BCHP identified the two women who died as a 36-year-old and a 27-year-old.<\/p>\n
The women reportedly have \u201cinternational next of kin who are still being informed about the tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police say three more people suffered serious injuries, including two who were in the white Hyundai and the driver of the Dodge Ram truck.<\/p>\n
Mounties add that the Dodge driver is \u201cbeing investigated,\u201d but more witnesses and video are required to complete the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you saw the driver of a grey Dodge Ram pickup doing anything suspicious in the minutes or hours leading up to the fatal crash, please call us,\u201d said McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information or footage to share is asked to call the BC Highway Patrol Kamloops Division at 250-828-3111 and quote file (2100) 2025-3075.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) has shared more details of a crash on the Coquihalla Highway that killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-129950","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\/129950","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=129950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}