BC Highway Patrol

• B.C. ‘YouTube influencer’ has car impounded for excessive speeding

  BC Highway Patrol said an unmarked patrol officer was in Lantzville when he heard an "excessively loud vehicle accelerate away from a stoplight on Highway 19, near Ware Road."

  Traffic

  Feb 5
  
• $700 fine for Highway 1 crash caused by loose tire ‘an insult’, victim says

  A B.C. woman says she suffers pain and nightmares and is without a car after a dump truck lost two wheels on Highway 1 Thursday, yet the driver got only a 'slap on the wrist.'

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  Dec 1, 2024
  
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• Okanagan drivers’ need for speed results in hundreds of impounds, tickets

  "The number of vehicle compounds is quite staggering in the Kelowna area."

  Crime

  Nov 27, 2024
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• 19 impaired charges handed out during B.C. music festival

  The Shambhala Music Festival in the Kootenays July 26-29 featured scores of electronic musicians and attracted thousands of fans to the Salmo area. It kept police plenty busy too.

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  Aug 9, 2024
• ICBC, police urge road safety for B.C. long weekend

  ICBC says most months see an average of 55 people injured or killed. For July and August, though, that average rises to 87 people injured or killed.

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  Aug 2, 2024
• Witnesses sought in crash that killed pedestrian near Hope, B.C.

  BC Highway Patrol is looking for witnesses who may have driven past the scene of a fatal crash involving a pedestrian on Monday between midnight and 1 a.m.

  Traffic

  Jul 31, 2024
• Witnesses, dashcam footage sought of B.C. crash that killed family of 4

  A family of four was killed in the collision that involved a northbound Ford Maverick and a southbound tractor-trailer hauling dimensional lumber.

  Traffic

  Jul 18, 2024
• Excessive speeding: B.C. Highway Patrol urges public to slow down after spike in traffic deaths

  ‘People need to slow down, they need to pay attention, make sure they’re not distracted by anything including cellphones, and they need to drive sober,’ BCHP Insp. Chad Badry said.

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  Jul 17, 2024
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• 4 dead in highway crash near Keremeos: B.C. RCMP

  ‘Sadly, four adults of an extended family, all from the same vehicle, were found deceased on scene,’ B.C. Highway Patrol said.

  Traffic

  Jul 11, 2024
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• Don’t drink and drive: Summer road checks underway across B.C.

  In the South Okanagan, B.C. Highway Patrol says it checked more than 600 vehicles between July 4-6.

  Canada

  Jul 10, 2024