No one was killed in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of the Trans-Canada Highway and Balmoral Road Friday afternoon that left one vehicle flipped over in the middle of the highway.
RCMP Traffic Services from Revelstoke report that the driver of the overturned vehicle will be charged with failure to yield.
Police say the 2005 black Ford Edge SUV was stopped about 4 p.m. at the Balmoral intersection intending to turn left, or east, onto the Trans-Canada.
“The black Ford Edge proceeded before it was safe, directly into the path of a westbound 2010 white Ford Edge SUV. The white Ford struck the driver’s side of the black Ford,” report police in a news release.
Police say the driver and only occupant of the black vehicle was transported by helicopter to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, with injuries later determined not to be life-threatening.
In the white vehicle, the driver suffered minor injuries and the passenger sustained broken bones. Both were taken to Shuswap Lake General Hospital in Salmon Arm.
