The Coquihalla Highway’s speed limit is 120 km/h in parts. It should be 30 km/h lower: experts
KAMLOOPS — Six vehicles were involved in a crash, including a Greyhound bus, north of Hope on Sunday that sent dozens of people to hospital.
It’s just the latest in a series of incidents on the Coquihalla Highway that has safety experts saying the speed limit on that route should be at least 30 km/h lower than what it was raised to in 2014.
Back then, the provincial government raised the speed limit on a section of the Coquihalla from Hope to Kamloops from 110 km/h to 120 km/h, following a Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review.
At the time, it turned out that 85 per cent of vehicles were travelling at speeds of up to 127 km/h on that stretch of road.