The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man and a woman who died in a motor vehicle related incident near Tete Jaune Cache on Wednesday.
They are Karmen Anne McGee, 25, of New Westminster, and Bruce Donald Sykes, 64, of Vernon.
At about 8:30 a.m. McGee was driving an sport utility vehicle southbound on Highway 16 when, about four kilometres east of Tete Jaune Cache, her vehicle collided with a loaded northbound tractor-trailer unit driven by Sykes. Both were deceased at the scene.
The BC Coroners Service, WorkSafeBC, Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement, and RCMP continue to investigate this incident.