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UPDATE: Fatal collision closes Highway 1 in both directions in Shuswap

Monday morning closure about 16 kilometres west of Salmon Arm, detours from Kamloops, Sicamous
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The Trans-Canada Highway closed in both directions near Tappen Monday morning, Oct. 4 due to fatal vehicle crash. (File photo)

UPDATE

BC Highway Patrol is reporting that a fatal collision was the cause of the Highway 1 closure about 7 a.m. Monday, Oct. 4 near Tappen.

“Early indications are that this was a two-vehicle collision, with the driver of one vehicle succumbing to injuries at the scene,” BC Highway Patrol wrote in a news release.

Police said their investigation is in its early stages and is subject to change.

The crash is reported to have taken place about two kilometres west of Tappen at Ford Road.

Drive BC reports that detours are available eastbound from Kamloops via Highway 97 to Vernon and Highway 97A to Sicamous. Westbound traffic can take Highway 97A from Sicamous to Highway 97 northbound to Monte Creek.

BC Highway Patrol Revelstoke is in charge of the investigation with assistance from the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service and the BC Coroners Service. Investigators are working to determine the cause of this collision.

Highway 1 is expected to remain closed in both directions for several hours as police gather evidence. Traffic control personnel are on scene and rerouting traffic where possible.

Anyone with information about the collision, including any dashboard camera video, is asked to contact BC Highway Patrol in Revelstoke at 250-805-2111.

The next update from Drive BC is expected at 11:30 a.m.

Original

A vehicle incident about 16 kilometres west of Salmon Arm closed the Trans-Canada Highway in both directions on Monday morning, Oct. 4.

Drive BC is reporting that the incident occurred at Ford Road, two kilometres west of Tappen in the Shuswap.

Emergency vehicles are on scene and a detour is not available.

The next update will be upcoming at 8:30 a.m.



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came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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