Hope Search And Rescue

SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY

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NEWS RELEASE
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Mario Levesque

On Sunday December 8, at approximately 3:20pm, Hope Search and Rescue was called by the RCMP to a single vehicle accident that went over the embankment at Box Canyon on the Coquihalla Highway.  When we arrived on scene, the vehicle was 60 feet down an embankment and landed in the creek. Members from CFV, Sunshine Coast, Fernie SAR who were driving by, stopped and quickly lent a hand with the rescue and assisted Chilliwack SAR with a rope system. Hope SAR used JAWS equipment and extracted one patient from the vehicle while to other occupant walked up the hill on his own. Teams brought the patient up the hill to awaiting ambulance. All teams dismantled rope system; equipment was brought back up and returned home.

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