One person is dead following a four-vehicle collision on Highway 16 near Vanderhoof.
RCMP were called to the scene near Shanley Road, about 10 kilometres east of the community, at about 6 p.m.
Upon arrival, they determined that an eastbound SUV crossed the centre line and collided head-on with a westbound loaded fuel tanker truck and two other vehicles following behind the tanker truck.
The SUV's female driver died at the scene while everyone else involved suffered only minor injuries. Her name was not provided.
RCMP said the road surface was slippery and foggy at the time of the collision and the temperature was below freezing. There was no fuel spillage from the tanker truck.
The stretch was reopened to traffic shortly before 5 a.m.
Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to call Prince George Regional Traffic Services (Vanderhoof) at 250-567-2222 and quote file 2019-134.
