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Crash sends 5 to hospital

Multiple people were taken to hospital Tuesday night after a serious car accident at the intersection of Richter Street and KLO Road.

An SUV carrying a male driver in his 40’s and two adolescent girls collided with a minivan driven by a women in her 30’s and a young boy at around 8:15 p.m.

Kelowna RCMP Cst. Steve Holmes says both vehicles were pretty banged up.

“There was considerable front end damage to the van and the force of the impact knocked the SUV across the intersection where it hit the curb, and flipped over on its side.”

The SUV ended up on the south sidewalk of KLO, resting against the sign for the Mission Park shopping centre.

All five occupants are believed to have been taken to Kelowna General Hospital, with both drivers appearing to have suffered the brunt of the collision.

Police at the scene are still conducting their investigation into the crash and were not completely sure the directions of travel of both vehicles, but its believed that the lights on Richter were red at the time of the incident.

There were no signs of impairment from either vehicle at the scene, according to police, and everyone seemed to have been wearing their seatbelts. 

A witness who lived nearby said he did not hear the screeching of tires or brakes, but instead three loud thumps or crashes in quick succession.

When he came outside, first responders were on scene and carrying the driver out of the SUV.

A hole had to be cut in the windshield to access the driver.



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