January 9, 2012
Engineers inspect British Columbia construction site where boulder crushed passenger car
KELOWNA, B.C.
Engineers hope to have answers later this week as they try to figure out how a boulder came loose at a construction site and smashed onto a vehicle on Highway 97, north of Kelowna, British Columbia last Friday.
They will be inspecting containment beams that were supposed to stop debris from falling from the new Oyama-Winfield highway.
In the meantime, work has been suspended at the site along Wood Lake.
A boulder crushed a car on a highway in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley Friday but the three people inside survived.
The RCMP say the boulder, weighing up to 136 kilograms, landed on the hood of a White Dodge sedan travelling south on Highway 97 near the community of Oyama, north of Kelowna.
The front end of the car was crushed, injuring the male driver and a woman passenger.
Police say they were taken to hospital but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, while a third person in the car was not hurt.
The RCMP say the incident happened below an area of road construction and an investigation has been launched into how the rock came loose.
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