Single-Vehicle Crash at the Wedding Cake Corner
Emergency responders answered a call on Sunday evening, September 3, 2017, at 6:30 pm, and found that a vehicle had gone over the bank and crashed to a halt about 150 feet down the hill. Rescuers from Rossland, Warfield and Trail fire halls were at the scene in less than 15 minutes. They extricated one person from the vehicle, and performed a rope rescue to get the patient up the steep slope back to the highway. The procedure was completed within an hour.
RCMP are investigating the crash; no other details have been released at this time.