UPDATE: One person suffers injuries in Major vehicle accident on Hwy.97

QUESNEL– Update: One person suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries in a two-vehicle crash this morning about 45 kilometres south of Quesnel on Highway 97.

BC RCMP Cpl. Mike Halskov says at 10:25 a.m. Quesnel RCMP and emergency services were called to the scene of the head-on crash between a semi-trailer and a pickup truck.

RCMP say that a northbound transport truck lost control on the slippery roads, causing the trailer to jack-knife into the southbound lanes where it collided with a southbound pick-up truck with a lone driver.

The driver of the pick-up truck was air-lifted to hospital. The driver of the transport truck was issued a Violation Ticket for speed relative conditions which carries a fine of $167 and three points.