Three taken to hospital after truck spins off and on Trans-Canada highway
Wet roads are being cited as the cause of a single-vehicle accident that sent three people to hospital on Sunday evening.
The crash took place on the westbound passing lane on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Revelstoke, just past the Three Valleg Gap hotel, said RCMP Staff-Sgt. Jacquie Olsen.
A red Dodge pickup truck passed a tractor-trailer, but when the driver attempted to change back into the right-hand lane, the truck spun out of control, fishtailing and spinning on and off the highway, eventually coming to a rest on the highway, Olsen said.
Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
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The accident was one of two on two near Three Valley Gap on the weekend.
On Saturday at around 10:30 p.m. a driver on the Three Valley Gap frontage road had both driver side tires of his car punctured and a big dent in the side of his car as the result of a fallen piece of metal debris from a transport truck, said RCMP.
No one was injured in the crash.
The tansport-truck was not located.
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