Two young men have died and a third is suffering from serious injuries after a crash near Mission Thursday evening, the RCMP says.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Norrish Creek Forest Service Road around 9 p.m. after an injured man flagged down a motorist. When they arrived, they found a truck had crashed down an embankment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man \u2014 who was found around the 7-kilometre mark \u2014 said he had been a passenger in a truck with two friends when the truck crashed,\u201d the Mission RCMP said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMission Search and Rescue was called out, and despite the terrain and darkness, they were able to locate indications of where a vehicle had left the gravel roadway.\u201d<\/p>\n
They found the truck around 300 feet down the embankment in the creek below.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, both of the remaining occupants died as a result of the crash,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man who made it to the roadway suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
All three men were 22 years old and residents of Abbotsford. They had been camping in the area with other friends.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone who saw the truck \u2014 a red Ford Ranger with a black canopy \u2014 in the area on Thursday is asked to call the Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161 and quote file number 25-8509.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young men have died and a third is suffering from serious injuries after a crash near Mission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-7592","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\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}