KEREMEOS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a highway collision in the southern Interior, part of a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.
RCMP say the crash involving two cars and a tractor trailer near Becks Road in Keremeos shut Highway 3 for eight hours on Wednesday.
They say four members of the same extended family, all in the same vehicle, were found dead at the scene of the "terrible tragedy" that took place around 11:30 a.m.
BC Highway Control say another crash happened around 2 p.m. on Thursday near Boston Bar, killing two more people.
The incidents are the latest in a series of crashes in B.C. that have claimed at least 16 lives in the past week.
Four people were killed last Friday in a crash in the West Kootenays on Highway 6; a family of three including a baby died in Agassiz on the Lougheed Highway on Tuesday morning; and another three people died when their vehicle went over an embankment in Wilmer, north of Invermere, on Tuesday night.
RCMP say the cause of the crashes in Keremeos and Boston Bar are still under investigation.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2024.
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