Single Vehicle Crash In Williams Lake Claims One Life

Police continue to investigate a single vehicle crash in Williams Lake that claimed a life shortly after midnight on Sunday April 23rd.

North District Corporal Madonna Saunderson said BC Emergency Health Services received the call of a roll over crash on Frizzi Road and that one person had been ejected.

When police arrived, Saunderson said they found a Pontiac Wave on its roof near the train tracks and emergency personnel attending to a woman involved in the crash.

Despite the lifesaving efforts the 50-year-old woman was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Saunderson said the investigation is ongoing as police work to determine the causal factors, but do not believe there to be any criminality involved and that no further information will be released at this time.

 

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Pat Matthews
Pat Matthews
Pat started working in the Cariboo in 1989 after spending several years in radio in Terrace. He worked in the creative department until 2017 when he switched over to news covering Williams Lake and the South Cariboo as well as being the afternoon host on Country 840 in 100 Mile House.

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