Two killed, three injured in crash of vehicle going the wrong way on B.C. highway

Two people have died and three more were injured after police say a vehicle driving the wrong way on a British Columbia highway crashed on Friday.

An RCMP statement says police were called just before 9 p.m. about a vehicle driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of the Coquihalla Highway just south of Kamloops.

The statement says before police were able to intervene a grey Dodge Ram pickup and a white Hyundai Kona hatchback collided head-on.

The statement does not say which vehicle is believed to have been travelling in the wrong direction, but says the collision killed two people and seriously wounded three others.

Corp. Michael McLaughlin says in the statement that police are investigating the possibility that criminal behaviour caused the crash.

He says police need every available witness and camera footage to explain what the drivers were doing in the minutes and hours leading up to the collision.

Anyone with information is being asked to call police.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 6, 2025

The Canadian Press