Written by FRANK PEEBLES
Citizen staff
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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DUNKLEY LUMBERWILLIAMS LAKE
The woman was travelling in a Geo Tracker from Prince George to her home in Williams Lake when the crash occurred, although the cause remains a mystery.
"For an unknown reason she went off road-right into the ditch," said RCMP Const. Ryan Arthur. "At the time of the incident the weather was clear and sunny, the highway was dry. She didn't recall falling asleep, but there was no sign of braking, just the path of the vehicle off the highway and over a bank. Either she was in some way disorientated or she fell asleep for some reason, but she doesn't recall that moment."
The crash happened on Highway 97 South at the Naver Creek Road intersection at about 2:20 p.m.
"The ditch ended at a pullout, an intersection, and that steep embankment caused her vehicle to vault, in a sideways fashion, back onto the highway," Arthur said. "Her vehicle flipped several times where it came to rest on the driver's side door. Her left arm was pinned underneath the vehicle."
The first trained responders on the scene were dispatched from the sawmill, an act Aurthur called "very courteous" as they were not required to leave the worksite to help on the highway. The interventions of David Novak, Kevin Novak, Brad Johnson and Jason Poitras eased her suffering until B.C. Ambulance, RCMP and Quesnel Highway Rescue could lift the vehicle off her arm, extricate her from the wreckage, and get her to hospital.
Her non-life-threatening injuries were attended to at GR Baker Memorial Hospital in Quesnel.
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