Highway traffic through Nanaimo was backed up for several kilometres after a two vehicles collided on the Nanaimo Parkway this morning.
B.C. Ambulance, Nanaimo Fire Rescue and RCMP were called to the scene in the northbound lane of the parkway, about one kilometre south of the Fifth Street and College Drive intersection a little before 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 28.
According to Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief Troy Libbus, the incident was a two-vehicle head-on collision involving an SUV and a sports car.
“A southbound vehicle left the highway and hit head-on into a vehicle in the northbound lane,” Libbus said.
One person was taken to hospital with unknown injuries.
Libbus did not have information about what might have precipitated the crash, but salt trucks were spraying the parkway and connecting streets to melt ice that had formed on the road, creating slippery conditions.
Both northbound lanes of the parkway were blocked until the last of the wreck was being cleared at about 9:30 a.m.
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