One man was killed and another seriously injured Saturday, when a delivery van lost control and smashed head-on into oncoming traffic.
An eastbound cube delivery truck lost control on icy roads and entered the oncoming lane at around 9:25 a.m. Feb. 5, colliding with a westbound pickup truck.
“The driver of the pickup truck, a man in his fifties from Alberta, died at the scene,” RCMP said in a press release.
“The passenger of the pickup truck, a man in his forties from the Okanagan, was seriously injured and taken by STARS Air Ambulance to a hospital in Alberta. Neither of the two occupants of the cube delivery truck was injured in the collision.”
Highway 1 through Yoho National Park was closed for several hours as police investigated.
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Anyone with information about this fatal crash, including any dashboard camera video, is asked to contact BC Highway Patrol in Golden at 250- 344-2221.
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