Emergency services in West Vancouver, B.C., say two people were killed and 10 others were injured after a vehicle drove into the yard of a residence where a wedding party was taking place on Saturday.
West Vancouver police spokesman Const. Nicole Braithwaite said shortly after 6 p.m. Pacific time, a woman in her 60s driving a vehicle on a shared driveway “accelerated forward and crashed into several people attending a wedding.” .
He did not say how many people were attending the wedding at the time of the crash, but two people were killed in the collision.
BC Emergency Health Services said 11 ambulances and a helicopter rushed to the property at Keith Road and Keith Place.
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Paramedics took 10 people to hospital. The service said five people were in stable condition, three in serious condition and two in critical condition.
Braithwaite said the woman driving the vehicle is cooperating with police. No charges have been recommended yet.
‘Tragic incident’
“What I can tell you is that I think it was a tragic incident, and our hearts and thoughts obviously go out to everyone who witnessed it at the wedding and all the injured parties,” he said.
Cpl. Dave Noon of the RCMP’s Lower Mainland Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service said on social media that the service was dispatched to the 400 block of Keith Road “for a serious vehicle incident” .
He wrote that the road was closed in both directions.