{"id":739522,"date":"2026-06-16T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:13:14","slug":"wrong-way-driver-killed-in-head-on-crash-on-coquihalla-south-of-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739522\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver killed in head-on crash on Coquihalla south of Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/770e518a-c898-49b3-84bf-515dc5e9d6bc-8.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Jaynie Lambert via Facebook\/Coquihalla Road Reports (And Area))<\/p>\n<p>By Aaron Schulze<\/p>\n<p>Coquihalla Watch<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 15, 2026 | 8:47 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MERRITT, B.C. \u2014 UPDATE (3:30 p.m.): According to DriveBC, the northbound lanes of the Coquihalla reopened at around 3 p.m., after first responders cleared the scene.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (12:00 p.m.): Police say one person was killed in a head-on crash in the northbound lanes of the Coquihalla Highway, south of Merritt Monday (June 15) morning.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt RCMP say they were told that a small car was travelling in the wrong direction around 8:08 a.m. this morning. Five minutes later, police said they were told the car was involved in a head-on crash with a transport van.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, RCMP said initial witness reports indicated that the car was speeding.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Jaynie Lambert via Facebook\/Coquihalla Road Reports (And Area)) By Aaron Schulze Coquihalla Watch Jun 15, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-739522","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\/739522","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=739522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}