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The accidents took place near the intersection of Highway 97 south near Bartley Road.

Driver inattention has been determined as the cause of  multiple traffic accidents that happened early this morning.

West Kelowna RCMP received a report of a three-vehicle crash on highway 97 near Bartley Road just after 7:30 a.m.

According to Cst. Kris Clark, a dog running into traffic distracted one driver, causing him to rear-end another, pushing the second vehicle into the third.

While officers were dealing with that crash, another accident occurred in the same vicinity when one driver rear-ended another. That person told police he was looking at the original accident scene and not paying attention to the road.

A third crash involving three vehicles occurred around 8:30 a.m., and was very similar in nature to the first incident, with the cause determined to be a lack of attention.

Several vehicles were no longer driveable and had to be removed, but no one was overtly injured.

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