Snow turned morning commute into bumper cars

Several centimeters of snow fall that fell Feb. 16 created a busy day for first responders in Lake Country.

Several centimeters of snow fall that fell Feb. 16 created a busy day for first responders in Lake Country.

There were at least five reported accidents, one of them a multi-vehicle pileup just north of Oyama.

That six-vehicle crash early in the morning sent several people to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

RCMP Const. Kris Clark said the exact scope of the injuries were not made public.

The investigation is ongoing but Clark said Motor Vehicle Act charges would likely be made  against at least one driver.

There were also two single vehicle accidents with drivers hitting the ditch and a pair of two-vehicle accidents with drivers hitting each other.

“The vast majority of the incidents were speed, weather and road condition related,” said Clark.

By Friday morning it appeared drivers had got the message to slow down in adverse weather related driving conditions as not a single motor vehicle incident had been reported on Friday morning.

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