A male driver has serious injuries after the white Silverado truck he was driving crossed Johnston Street, hit a curb, and vaulted up over a retaining wall, landing in the front yard of a home in the 500 block of 10th Avenue East.
"Alcohol is suspected at this time," says Cst. Rick Meaver with the RCMP Cariboo Chilcotin traffic services, who was there with a crew doing some preliminary measurements this morning.
At the same time, members of search and rescue were removing equipment they'd used at the scene,
Meaver says the call about the crash came into the RCMP at around 2:30 a.m. and the people living in the home were there at the time.
Paulette Zinser lives half a block away on 10th Avenue East, and says she and her fiance were woken up by a loud bang.
"All I heard was a boom sound. I woke up and thought 'holy cow.' We came down into our living room to see if it was something in our place. There wasn't anything so we looked out the window, saw a truck on the lawn, and the next thing we know there were police showing up, an ambulance, search and rescue and the fire department," Zinser says.
This morning, as she watched the RCMP crew surveying the scene, Zinser wondered how the truck managed to land in the yard.
"They must have been coming up the street pretty fast," she says.