Despite the first snowfall of the season, it was a quiet Monday morning for RCMP.
Officers were called out to just two motor vehicle incidents, the first at about
5 a.m. - before the snowfall began - when a fully-loaded tractor trailer pulling a B-train went on its side on Highway 16 West.
Slippery sections, whiteout conditions caused by fog and high beams from an oncoming driver were factors, said Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass, who noted the logs the assembly was carrying did not spill.
At about 7 a.m., RCMP were called to a two-car collision on First Avenue, "but other than that, that was it for those that were reported to us," Douglass said.
By 9 a.m. the snow had turned to slush in the bowl area as the temperature rose to zero, although the Ministry of Transportation's DriveBC service was warning of slippery sections along both Highway 16 and Highway 97.
Environment Canada was calling for sub-zero lows over Monday and Tuesday nights but rising above freezing for the rest of this week with a chance of showers from Thursday to Sunday.
Winter tires - signified by either an M+S or snowflake inside a mountain - are now mandatory.
