Search for crash driver

Photo: David Ogilvie

UPDATE: Monday, March 20, 12:30 p.m.

An official from the crash scene says the driver was never missing, but was instead taken to hospital by paramedics after the crash.

UPDATE: Sunday, March 19, 2:45 p.m.

West Kelowna RCMP are searching for a driver who crashed a vehicle on Highway 97 near Nancee Way Overpass around 2 p.m. Sunday.

Highway traffic was tied up by the crash, the second of the day. 

The northbound vehicle took out a sign as it crashed into the median on the highway.

Police, an ambulance and a fire crew attended but the driver is reported to have left the scene.

Officers have been seen searching ditches and nearby trees.

One northbound lane was closed due to the crash.

Around 11 a.m., a three-vehicle crash on Highway 97 at Daimler Drive shut down a northbound lane on the highway.