Two people were rushed to hospital on Saturday, one by air ambulance, after an ATV accident by Alouette Lake.
The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. in the area of 256th Street and Alouette Lake FSR, on the east side of the lake.
One patient was found with the ATV by the access road and the other patient was found about 150 metres away from the dam.
“They were not close together,” said assistant fire chief Mark Smitton with the Maple Ridge fire department, who had heard that one person may have walked towards the dam to get help.
A woman was taken to hospital by helicopter and a man was transported to hospital by regular ambulance.
Both were in stable condition.
There was front wheel damage to the ATV.
Smitton said it was a little difficult finding the patients because of the location information given to the first responders.
“They give you the location of where they had started and they are 15 minutes (into their ride) and we are finding out where they might be and the best place to get them,” explained Smitton, saying that they sent crews along 256th Street, where the pair started out, and also along Alouette Lake FSR. Both roads meet up just east of the southern tip of the lake.
The Ridge Meadows RCMP confirmed in an email that they attended the scene and assisted B.C. air ambulance but will not be releasing any more information, “as there is nothing criminal suspected”.
