{"id":872526,"date":"2026-08-26T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:52:09","slug":"williams-lake-man-charged-in-fatal-highway-1-crash-near-lytton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872526\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Lake man charged in fatal Highway 1 crash near Lytton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Williams Lake man charged in fatal Highway 1 crash near Lytton<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:06 am Wednesday, August 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By La\u00edsa Cond\u00e9\/Williams Lake Tribune\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>A Williams Lake man has been charged following a fatal crash south of Lytton last year that killed two people.<\/p>\n<p>According to an RCMP press release, on Aug. 15, 2025, just before 5 p.m., a black Ford SUV collided with a grey GMC pickup on Highway 1, just south of Lytton.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed and four others were injured in the crash. Both vehicles were destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police said during the weeks following the collision, the conduct of the investigation was transferred to BC Highway Patrol. The results were later forwarded to the BC Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 6, 2026, 44-year-old Joel Chenier was charged with driving without due care and attention under Section 144(1)(a) of the BC Motor Vehicle Act.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP said Chenier and the occupants of his vehicle included three of the people injured in the crash and one of those who died.<\/p>\n<p>Chernier has been served with a summons to appear in Lillooet Provincial Court on Sept. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams Lake man charged in fatal Highway 1 crash near Lytton Published 11:06 am Wednesday, August 26, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-872526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872526","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=872526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}