Hwy. 3 near Hedley closed for several hours Saturday but re-opened shortly after noon.

The accident happened around 7:30 a.m. when a pickup truck collided with a what is believed to be a minivan (top) west of Hedley.

Both occupants of the pickup truck were injured, but not as severely as the lone occupant of the minivan, which rolled down a fifteen foot embankment, settling in a field next to the Similkameen river.

Crews from the Hedley Volunteers FD used the jaws of life on both vehicles. It took over an hour to remove the driver of the minivan from the remains of his vehicle and then airlifted to hospital.

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