Two people have died following a single-vehicle accident in the backcountry near Trout Lake.
The BC Coroners Service confirms it’s investigating the incident Thursday evening on Rady Creek Forest Service Road, but they’re not providing any other details.
Mark Jennings-Bates of Kaslo Search and Rescue said his organization was called out to a report of a vehicle rollover involving two occupants, one of whom had been thrown and the other of whom was still trapped.
The vehicle was said to have rolled 150 to 200 feet (45 to 60 meters) down a steep slope.
Search and rescue was able to dispatch a ground team quickly and to find a Nakusp-based helicopter, “which given the forest fire situation is not that easy.” It flew to the scene with three response team members.
They arrived with just enough daylight to find the crash site and get the victims off the mountain. A woman was taken by helicopter to hospital in Nakusp, while the body of a man was also recovered from the scene.
Jennings-Bates said his understanding is that the vehicle in question was a road vehicle converted for rock crawling and overlanding. He wasn’t sure whether the wreckage would be recovered, but said it wasn’t within search and rescue’s mandate to do so.
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