Driver missing after logging truck washed off road during storm

Search and rescue crews are looking for a 61-year-old truck driver in the mountains north of Hope.

The driver’s logging truck is believed to have been washed off a forest service road during Tuesday’s storm.

The wreckage of the truck has been found more than 200 metres below the road in a ravine, but so far, the man’s body has not been recovered.

WATCH: Trucker vanishes following Tuesday’s storm near Hope

“At this point in time we have one unaccounted for individual and thus we are out in the area to conduct a search in an attempt to locate this individual.”

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WATCH BELOW: S/Sgt. Karol Rehdner of Hope RCMP discusses the search for a truck driver who vanished following Tuesday’s storm near Hope.

Rehdner said the area was heavily saturated with high winds.