Image: Rhonda Morrison, used with permission / Multiple Chilliwack RCMP officers were dispatched to Highway 1 Sunday night (Nov. 10) after a vehicle reportedly crashed. First responders were called to an area of Highway 1 east of Annis Road (exit 129); the call reportedly involved weapons.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

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UPDATE 10:25 P.M., SUNDAY: Highway 1 has reportedly reopened in both directions, according to Fraser Valley Road Report. A Chilliwack resident who spoke to the RCMP about an unrelated incident Sunday night says an RCMP member told her tonight’s police incident has been peacefully resolved.

UPDATE, 9:20 P.M.: Highway 1 remains blocked as of 9:15 p.m. due to an unfolding police incident east of Annis Road (exit 129) in Chilliwack. A Chilliwack resident whose cousin and young daughter are stuck in the incident tells Fraser Valley Today the following: “Okay, they [police] got us turned around but now we’re stopped because they [police] have stopped traffic both ways so emergency can get in and we’re on the wrong side of the highway. They said we will be here until they resolve the incident and open the highway and we will then be turned back eastbound.”

Original story below from 8:29 p.m. Sunday night:

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP and Chilliwack Fire have been dispatched to a police incident on Highway 1 east of Annis Road (exit 129) in Chilliwack Sunday night after witnesses say a vehicle crashed sometime after 7:15 p.m. and the occupant of the vehicle may have had weapons.

According to scanner traffic and multiple witness descriptions, multiple police vehicles have been deployed to an area of Highway 1 where it curves before the Bridal Falls exit (Exit 135).

Kamscan posted on X/Twitter at 7:29 p.m. that first responders were told the incident involved a “significant police event.” The dispatch mentioned weapons and all units were to stage at Annis Road.

Police have reportedly instituted road blocks for the safety of motorists. On Google Maps, traffic is dark red east and west of the incident along Highway 1. In other words, traffic is not getting through as of 8:40 p.m. Sunday night.

One Facebook commenter wrote in a Chilliwack-area social media group that a single vehicle hit a guard rail and went into a ditch. The driver may have been impaired and had possible weapons.

This information has not been officially confirmed by authorities Sunday night.

Dispatch advised a Chilliwack-area fire agency at approximately 7:55 p.m. that RCMP might have to call in a negotiator to assist with the situation.

One Chilliwack resident told Fraser Valley Today Sunday night that her cousin was caught up in the incident.

“They [police] have moved her behind a police car and told her to turn her music up,” a friend told the Chilliwack resident about her cousin. “They [police] have guns, running past her car. Moving to people to safety. She is scared and asking for prayer.”

The woman’s cousin had been laying on her vehicle’s floorboard as the incident unfolded.

Fraser Valley Today received a picture from a witness who said two RCMP officers had rifles and a spike strip deployed.

Image: X.com/settersgrey, used with permission / A witness at the scene of Sunday’s police incident says RCMP officers have their rifles drawn and a spike strip deployed.

Fraser Valley Today has reached out to the Chilliwack RCMP for information on the incident.