Image: Sicamous Fire Rescue / First responders have located a semi-trailer truck that plunged 18 metres off a highway bridge over the weekend in Sicamous, B.C.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Sicamous truck incident

Update: RCMP confirms no other vehicles contributed to the big rig crash off a bridge in Sicamous, B.C.

Aug 26, 2024 | 8:10 AM

UPDATE TUESDAY AT 10:30 A.M.: Corporal James Grandy, spokesperson for the Southeast District RCMP in British Columbia, wrote in a news release Tuesday morning that evidence collected at the scene has confirmed that no other vehicles contributed to the crash in which a truck plunged through the south side railing on RW Bruhn Bridge and into the channel below.

UPDATE MONDAY AT 2:35 P.M.: Media outlets are reporting that the driver of the semi-trailer truck involved in Saturday’s fatal bridge crash in Sicamous, B.C. has been identified as 25-year-old Raminderjit Singh, who was driving with Mountain Peak Transport out of Abbotsford.

Original story below: 

SICAMOUS — First responders and affiliated public safety personnel have retrieved a body and the mangled commercial truck that veered off a highway bridge and plummeted into a waterway over the weekend.

Sicamous Fire Rescue posted on Facebook Sunday (Aug. 25) that the recovery operation was successfully completed Sunday. There were no injuries or close calls reported during the recovery process. Sicamous fire officials say heavy tow truck operators, along with supporting apparatus, assisted dive teams in clearing the channel of any floating debris.

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Sicamous Fire Rescue says the RCMP is in the process of identifying the body recovered from the incident and contacting the next of kin.

Mounties say Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue as well as BC Emergency Health Services and local firefighters were dispatched to the RW Bruhn Bridge, where the eastbound truck drove off the roadway on Saturday morning.

The Bruhn Bridge is part of Highway 1 crossing the B.C. Interior, and police say the major thoroughfare was closed after the crash and was being redirected about 34 kilometres to the south of Sicamous.

Police say the crash caused significant damage to the bridge deck and the crossing would be closed until it could be made safe.

Photos and videos shared on social media show a section of the barrier rail on the two-lane bridge destroyed, with boats and unidentified debris in the waters below.

The District of Sicamous said Sicamous Beach Park and Sicamous Narrows were both closed for much of the weekend as emergency workers were involved in debris cleanup.

Police have not released the name of the driver of the semi-trailer truck. However, Gurpreet Sahota, an editor with a Punjabi newspaper, has identified the driver of the big rig as Raminderjit Singh, though this is unconfirmed by authorities.