Serious crash closes Highway 10
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Updated: November 17, 2009 2:16 PM
A crash involving several vehicles injured a number of people and closed Highway 10 just west of the Langley/Surrey border on Sunday afternoon.
According to a witness, the crash occurred when a vehicle travelling east on Highway 10 suddenly veered into the westbound lanes.
As many as four other vehicles are believed to have become involved, and debris was scattered over a wide area of the road.
The crash occurred just west of the intersection of Highway 10 and 192 Street at about 3 p.m., on Sunday, in steady rain.
Their faces and hands bloodied, a driver and his passenger, a woman, were trapped in their vehicle, a black SUV.
The driver was upright in his seat, while the woman lay with her back against him, and her legs dangling out of the vehicle.
Both doors were missing, and the front part of it lay before them in a tangled wreck.
B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics, RCMP officers and firefighters from the City of Surrey rushed to the scene to attend to the injured.
The driver of the vehicles involved in the initial collision had to be extricated using the Jaws of Life.
At least one of the injured was taken to hospital by air ambulance.
An e-mail sent to The Times from the sister of one of the injured people states that “My sister and her boyfriend have major injuries, and will be lucky to walk again.
“They have broken ribs, femurs, punctured lungs and shattered bones.”
The road remained close several hours after the collision.
