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Crash on Okanagan Connector sees crews use rope to rescue driver

A vehicle went down the embankment of the highway near the Brenda Mines hill on the Coquihalla Connector. Blaine Gaffney / Global News

An SUV went down the embankment of the Okanagan Connector near the Brenda Mines hill on Monday afternoon.

Emergency crews said they had to do a rope rescue to get the lone person in the vehicle up to the highway to a waiting ambulance

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Witnesses said the driver was complaining of lower back pain.

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RCMP, B.C. Ambulance and West Kelowna Fire and Rescue were all on scene.

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