On April 12, 2020 just after 12:20 p.m., emergency crews were called to the area Highway 97 North near the Duck Lake pullout.
Kelowna RCMP Municipal Traffic Services and Frontline officers attended where a grey Chevrolet Cruze sedan had struck a red Ford F150 full-size pickup truck conducting road maintenance stopped on the southbound side of the highway.
Both the driver of the sedan and the driver of the truck were transported from the scene by Emergency Health Services to hospital, with the driver of the sedan with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
The driver of the road maintenance truck was transported with minor injuries.
Both vehicles were heavily damaged and not driveable. The investigation into the contributing factors of the crash is continuing at this time and RCMP is looking for witnesses with information about the driving behaviour of the grey Chevrolet Cruze sedan travelling southbound from Lake Country to Kelowna.
“Our traffic services investigators are urging eye witnesses to the crash, to the previous movements of the grey sedan involved or to the operators driving behaviour prior to the collision to immediately come forward and speak with police,” states Cst. Solana Paré.
RCMP are also appealing to the public for dash camera footage who may have travelling on Highway 97 N between Lake Country and Kelowna on April 12th, 2020 around the time of the collision.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kelowna RCMP Municipal Traffic Services at 250-762-3300.