Erratic driver arrested after hitting transport truck on Highway 1

Witnesses were reporting that a female driver was speeding, driving through stop signs and red lights, and at one point almost hit a pedestrian. As the vehicle headed east on Highway 1, officers tried to pull it over but the driver refused to stop, Shelkie says.

Officers determind this driver was a high risk to public safety and had closed the highway near the Lafarge Bridge when the driver hit a moving transport truck nearby. Police were then able to take the 29-year-old woman into custody and have began an impaired driving investigation.

“When the female driver hit the transport truck, part of her vehicle flew off and hit the police vehicle. It was damaged, so that’s why it had to be cleared from the scene as well,” Shelkie says.

The driver of the transport truck had no injuries, and the woman didn’t appear to have any injuries but was taken to hospital for observation.

Shelkie says the woman is recently from Kamloops and was previously known to police. The stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway had to be closed eastbound for a short time while the vehicles were cleared, and traffic was redirected down Dallas Drive.

“At 6:30 in the morning, there are more people out walking about. She potentially could have hit a pedestrian. She was driving very erratically, and that’s why we had to make the decision, when she wouldn’t pull over for police, to get ahead of her and to close the highway off at Lafarge.”

A spike belt was deployed, Shelkie says, but the vehicle didn’t make it far enough to hit it.

by Ashley Legassic / James Peters

Erratic driver arrested after hitting transport truck on Highway 1

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