A single-vehicle incident in the Quesnel area ended in a fatality Monday. It was not the crash that caused the victim to die, police said, but rather the other way around.
"The 53-year-old driver was the sole occupant of the vehicle and was pronounced dead at hospital," said Const. Krista Vrolyk. "Preliminary investigation suggests that medical distress was the likely cause of this crash."
It happened at about 3:30 p.m., on Highway 97 in the vicinity of the Kersley community. The crash site was about a half-mile south of the Alamo Restaurant, Vrolyk said.
It appeared to investigators the victim's vehicle was travelling northbound and drifted across the oncoming lane (empty of traffic at the time) and collided with a fence in the southbound ditch.
"Road conditions at the time of the crash were described as dry and clear with good traction," said Vrolyk.
The name of the deceased is being withheld pending next of kin notification.
