{"id":678821,"date":"2026-05-19T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:23:14","slug":"update-woman-presumed-drowned-after-car-careened-into-north-thompson-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678821\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Woman presumed drowned after car careened into North Thompson River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/34823ed5-85c2-4e19-82cd-7438261590c8-3.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The North Thompson River off Schubert Drive, May 17. (Image Credit: CFJC Today \/ Victor Kaisar)<\/p>\n<p>By James Peters<\/p>\n<p>Car Into River<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 18, 2026 | 10:24 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 (UPDATE 5:00 p.m.): RCMP say a 24-year-old woman is presumed to have drowned after the <a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/05\/17\/two-people-taken-to-hospital-after-vehicles-plunges-into-north-thompson-river-off-schubert-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">vehicle she was driving plunged into the North Thompson River<\/a> in the area of Schubert Drive and Birch Avenue Sunday (May 17) evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident happened around 6:21 p.m. They note witnesses at the scene lost sight of the driver as she was carried further down the fast-moving river, which was running high.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Monday, police also say a 21-year-old female passenger was rescued by three bystanders who had jumped into the river.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger and one of her rescuers were taken to Royal Inland Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Thompson River off Schubert Drive, May 17. (Image Credit: CFJC Today \/ Victor Kaisar) By James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-678821","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\/678821","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=678821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}