Prince George Athletes Continue to Kelowna Following Horrific Accident
Saturday, March 2, 2013 @ 10:42 AM
Prince George, B.C. – There’s good news regarding the Prince George team of Special Olympic athletes and coaches involved in Friday afternoon’s fatal accident outside Cache Creek.
The Prince George delegation was riding an A and E Charter bus to a competition at the Winter Snow Festival in Kelowna when it was hit by a car, about 15 kilometres east of Cache Creek. The car was extensively damaged and burst into flames upon impact. The driver and lone occupant of the car was trapped in the wreckage and died at the scene.
Included on the Prince George team was Michael Harris, son of Cariboo-Prince George Member of Parliament Dick Harris. He tells 250 News this morning that everyone is fine. “They were all taken and run through the Kamloops hospital yesterday and given a physical clean bill of health. There was some bumps and bruises but nobody was hospitalized. The thing that they’ll deal with, of course, is some trauma because it was a nasty accident. Apparently the car hit on the exit side of the bus and burst into flame, so they couldn’t use the door to get out of the bus. So they had to pop the front window out and get out of the bus that way. You know the coaches and the driver must have been just tremendous to get everyone out of there.”
Harris says he spoke with Tom Ross, the Executive Director of Special Olympics Prince George, this morning “and he confirmed that everyone was shaken up but physically ok.” As well Ross told Harris that the team had gone on to Kelowna. “They went there yesterday. Apparently a bus came out from Kamloops to pick them up and, as I understand, they went into Kamloops, got checked out and carried on to Kelowna for the games. And that’s probably the best thing they could have done because of the trauma of being in an accident like that. I’m very thankful for that.”
The Prince George delegation also includes the wife and two daughters of local businessman Jos Van Hage.
The name and home town of the car driver have not been released as police continue their investigation of the collision.
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