Image: RCMP vehicle / File / Pattison Media

By Fraser Valley Today Staff

Investigation underway

Woman killed when SUV goes off embankment east of Mission

Jul 12, 2024 | 4:14 PM

MISSION — Mission RCMP are investigating an unusual series of events that resulted in the death of a woman earlier this week. Police say a woman from the Mission area was found dead inside a vehicle at the bottom of a steep embankment.

An RCMP news release said forestry workers came across a 33-year-old man on the Norrish Creek Forest Service Road (FSR) east of Mission around 4:30 a.m. Monday (Jul. 8). The man claimed he had been driving his SUV a day earlier when it veered off the road and down an embankment.

He said the woman that was travelling with him in the SUV was killed. He managed to climb up the embankment to the road. He sustained non-life-threatening injuries, was transported to the hospital and was later released.

Image: An image of a Ford Explorer similar to the one that reportedly went off an Forest Service Road and down a steep embankment, claiming the life of one person. / Supplied by RCMP

Mission Search and Rescue members along with other first responders, found the wreckage over 300 meters below the roadway. The RCMP’s Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service as well as the BC Coroner’s Service, were also on the scene. The investigation is ongoing.

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Investigators are now hoping to speak with anyone who was in the area known as the Paradise swimming hole, which can be accessed from the Norrish Creek FSR, at any time between Sunday, July 7, and Thursday, July 11. They would also like to hear from anyone who was anywhere along the Norrish Creek FSR on Sunday, July 7, and saw a blue 2003 Ford Explorer, similar to the stock photo above.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161, referencing file number 24-7899.