A Sorrento woman has been identified as the person killed in Sunday’s collision between an SUV and a Semi-truck on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Salmon Arm.
Mary Gould, 55, died at the scene of the collision. She was a realtor in Sorrento for Royal LePage Access Real Estate.
The collision, which occurred by the Trickle Inn in Tappen, involved a semi trailer with Alberta plates and Gould’s sport utility vehicle.
The driver of the semi-truck suffered minor injuries.
The badly damaged SUV ended up in the ditch on the eastbound side of the highway facing east and the semi lay tipped over on the same side of the road, further west and facing towards Kamloops.
Members of the RCMP traffic analyst team were at the scene and are still conducting an investigation into the cause of the collision. Weather and winter road conditions are expected to be factors.
Snow was falling heavily at the time of the collision.
The Trans-Canada Highway about 15 kilometres west of Salmon Arm opened to single-lane alternating traffic about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 and was reopened completely by 6 p.m.
