{"id":5111,"date":"2026-02-26T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7550305"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:51:14","slug":"salmon-arm-woman-killed-in-crash-with-semi-near-sicamous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/5111\/salmon-arm-woman-killed-in-crash-with-semi-near-sicamous\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Arm woman killed in crash with semi near Sicamous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 22-year-old woman from Salmon Arm was killed in a crash with semi truck south of Sicamous Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A southbound Ford sedan lost control on a curve on Highway 97A at around 8:40 a.m., Feb. 25, near the Hummingbird Resort along Mara Lake south of Sicamous, according to an RCMP media release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sedan crossed the centre line into the path of a northbound semi truck and trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highway was slippery with heavy snow falling at the time of the collision and the road was covered with a thin layer of wet snow, RCMP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman driving the car was declared deceased at the scene by an off duty doctor who had stopped to help. No one else was hurt in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highway was closed for approximately seven hours. Construction on the Bruhn Bridge in Sicamous was stopped for the day so traffic could be diverted to Highway 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-10.54.05-AM.png?w=1024\" alt=\"|\" class=\"wp-image-7550312\" title=\"|\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOOGLE MAPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old woman was declared dead at the scene of the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"post_modified":"2026-02-26T10:51:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:51:14","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-RCMP-police-FILE-PHOTOiNFOnews.ca_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}