Good Samaritan robbed after helping couple in need near Sicamous
SICAMOUS, B.C. — Two people are behind bars after robbing an off-duty firefighter who had stopped to help them following a highway crash.
Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Murray McNeil says the incident occurred Tuesday night after a transport truck was involved in a collision with a Ford F350 pickup truck, three kilometres west of Sicamous on the Trans Canada Highway.
“Witnesses reported that the pickup, traveling westbound, struck the trailer of the transport truck when the driver crossed into the eastbound lane,” he says. “The pickup truck then rolled into the eastbound ditch where it came to rest. A male and female passenger quickly exited and began to ask stopping motorists for a ride from the collision scene.”
He says when the off-duty firefighter stopped to help, the man and woman stole his Honda Civic. McNeil says police later discovered that the F350 pickup was stolen in Calgary last month.