Clearwater RCMP responded to 43 calls for service this past week, inlcuding a crashed semi-truck and assisting Kamloops RCMP with a complaint of a dangerous driver.
Detachment commander Sgt. Grant Simpson said Clearwater RCMP investigated a single vehicle collision involving a semi-truck overnight on Highway 5 earlier this month.
On May 9th upon signing on to work early in the morning, Simpson said he was advised of a commercial vehicle incident being held for day shift.
Simpson said police had received a third party report of a white Volvo semi hauling a flat deck trailer with two pieces of heavy equipment that had crashed into the southbound ditch. The crash scene was not blocking traffic, but there was mud and dirt all over the highway, he said, noting there were no injuries to the driver or passenger who were checked by a local nurse on her way to work.
Simpson said the trucking company had called their own tow before the collision was investigated.
Simpson attended the scene, locating the driver and his co-driver uninjured in the cab of the 2018 Volvo tractor unit.
“They exited the vehicle, stating that they had swerved to avoid a deer. Evidence on scene suggested that they had simply drifted over into the ditch and were unable to correct,” Simpson noted in his weekly police report. “In the process they had lost their load, consisting of a telehandler and small articulating front-end loader. Both were on their sides, almost upside down and leaking diesel fuel into the ditch.”
MoTI, Ministry of Environment and CVSE were contacted by RCMP and all agencies attended the scene.
“CVSE issued a Box 1 Notice & Order negating the trucking company’s request for their own tow company, who were hours away coming from Alberta. In addition to this, the Alberta heavy tow company had no permits in place to perform this recovery despite their claims of being in the process of obtaining them.”
Ministry of Environment eventually tasked the local heavy towing company to execute the recovery of this tractor trailer unit.
