A transport truck slammed into a telephone pole and parked car early May 21, smashing the pole to smithereens and knocking the car more than two metres down the road.
According to witnesses the crash happened sometime around 6 a.m. on Highway 97, less than a kilometre north of downtown Oliver.
Stewart Sorensen was asleep when he heard a thunderous crash just outside his house.
“Honestly I thought it was a plane crashing into the mountainside here,” he said May 21, as he waited for his insurance company to show up.
According to Sorensen, the CDS Transport Incorporated truck slammed into a telephone pole, sending wood shards flying, and also hit his Volkswagen that was parked just behind it, demolishing the front of the car and knocking it down the street.
Sorensen said that after stopping and giving his insurance information the driver of the truck—which was also slightly damaged—continued on his way.
Just after 9 a.m. May 21 the heavily damaged car sat more than two metres from the telephone pole, which was completely destroyed except for a small stump sticking from the ground.
At 9:30 a.m. May 21 The Oliver RCMP and CDS Transport representatives could not be reached for comment
Trevor Nichols
Oliver Chronicle
