RCMP releases details about massive crash on Alaska highway

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Fort St. John RCMP detachment has released information about the mid-week crash on the Alaska Highway in Fort St. John.

According to a press release from the detachment, officers were called to a multiple-vehicle collision at the intersection of 100th Street and Highway 97 at 3:29 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24th.

Multiple units from the RCMP, alongside the BC Conservation Officer Service, assisted with traffic control,  while BC Emergency Health Services and the Fort St. John Fire Department were on the scene providing treatment and transporting multiple victims of the accident.

The Alaska Highway was closed due to the crash while the RCMP investigated the incident.

The RCMP says after an investigation by its Integrated Collision Analysis Reconstruction Service, that a dump truck collided with three vehicles in the intersection, resulting in five people injured, with some in critical condition.

Constable Christiaan Dreyer, Media relations Officer with the Fort St. John RCMP, says “multiple additional investigative steps” are underway to determine the exact cause of the collision.

BC Emergency Health Services said it sent four ambulances with primary care paramedics, an advanced care paramedic response unit, an air ambulance with critical care paramedics, and a clinical operations director to the scene.

Paramedics treated five patients. One was transported to hospital in critical condition, two in serious condition, and two others in serious but stable condition.