Family members here and in India are mourning the death of a man who just arrived in Canada on a work permit three months ago.
Kelowna RCMP confirmed four people died in the single-vehicle crash on Hwy. 97C near the Loon Lake exit, east of Merritt on Saturday. The full bus was westbound when it rolled in icy conditions onto its passenger side, ending up in the eastbound lanes of the highway that connects Kelowna to the Coquihalla Highway around 6 p.m.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
Singh said it took him 12 hours to drive from Golden to Surrey before Christmas, a trip that usually takes almost six hours, because of poor road conditions. Seven remained in hospital on Monday with non-threatening injuries, Health Minister Adrian Dix said on Twitter. “We could feel the bus sort of slipping, the rear ending sliding out … right from the outset,” said Vizzutti, who was seated in the front row with his wife, Patricia Rockwell.
Vizzutti said his hands were also cut from broken glass. He doesn’t know if anyone else on the bus was seriously injured, although he saw people who were “shaken up” by the crash.“I thought, well we’re just in an accident, we’ll just pick up the pieces and move on from here — until we woke up on Christmas morning and we heard about the fatal accident on that same highway,” said Vizzutti.
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