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Highway 97 near Falkland reopens after crash

A motor vehicle incident on Douglas Lake Road put the brakes on traffic
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A BC Air Ambulance transported two drivers to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries after a head-on collision on Highway 97A near Enderby Sunday, May 24, 2020. (Photo submitted)

UPDATE: 4:40 p.m.

DriveBC has since given the all-clear for a motor vehicle incident that closed Highway 97 west of Falkland earlier today.

A “serious incident” closed the highway at Douglas Lake Road before 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28.

An air ambulance was dispatched near Westwold to respond to the incident but was soon stood down and redirected to another incident near Williams Lake.

More details to come.

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