Highway Fatality
Motorist unable to escape burning wreckage in collision west of Moose Lake
Sep 27, 2020 | 1:42 PM
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VALEMOUNT, BC – RCMP and the BC Coroners Service are investigating the circumstances surrounding a serious collision that claimed a life Saturday evening outside of Valemount.
At 10:45 P.M. on September 26, 2020, an officer from the Valemount RCMP detachment was responding to a collision between a moose and a motor vehicle near the B.C.-Alberta border when he encountered the scene of a serious collision along Highway 16 just east of Red Pass Townsite Road.
The front line officer arrived on scene to find a passenger vehicle fully engulfed in flames.
Preliminary findings suggest that a westbound semi-tractor trailer unit collided with an eastbound passenger car that had seemingly crossed the centre line.
