Driver inattention may have played a role in a single vehicle accident in the early hours of October 29.
A member on the Salmon Arm RCMP patroling the area near the Highway 97B and Trans-Canada Highway intersection at approximately 3:50 a.m. when they came upon a truck crashed into the embankment on the north side of the highway.
The driver, a 29-year-old Salmon Arm man had apparently failed to stop or turn at the intersection and drove straight across the TCH at highway speed into the bank on the north sideo f the highway.
The vehicle was seiously damaged and the driver and passenger were taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The RCMP say alcohol was not a factor in the crash.