Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Two firefighters stand next to a vehicle that rolled over on Lickman Road, across from the Chevron gas station, south of Highway 1 in Chilliwack Saturday evening. A nearby lamp post/standard was reportedly damaged and sheared off as a result of the motor vehicle incident.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

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Vehicle rolls over, takes out lamp standard near Lickman/Yale Saturday evening in Chilliwack

Nov 16, 2024 | 6:17 PM

CHILLIWACK — Multiple first responders were dispatched Saturday evening (Nov. 16) after a vehicle reportedly took out a lamp standard and rolled over across from the Chevron on Lickman Road, just south of Highway 1 in Chilliwack.

According to scanner traffic via Kelsey Brown, an administrator who runs Chilliwack Scanner, Chilliwack Fire Department Engines 1 (Cheam Avenue), 3 (Yarrow), 4 (South Sumas), and 6 (Greendale) were paged at 5:15 p.m. after a vehicle rolled over and took out a lamp post/standard near Lickman and Yale. Two B.C. Ambulance Service units were also paged to attend.

Engine 4 arrived on scene at approximately 5:23 p.m. and told dispatch all occupants were out of the vehicle. It’s not immediately known if any individuals were transported to hospital. A Fraser Valley Today reporter attended the scene and saw three young males standing near the accident scene.

Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Another angle of the rollover that happened across from the Chevron gas station on Lickman Road Saturday evening.

Chilliwack RCMP arrived on scene at approximately 5:44 p.m. to arrange for a tow.

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A witness who was who in the vicinity of the motor vehicle incident tells Fraser Valley Today she saw a lamp post on the ground following the incident.

“Yep, they took out the lamp post,” said Chilliwack resident Janice Spenst. “I drove right by it and could see everything out the right side of my window.”

Scanner traffic also said that a light standard had been sheared off due to the motor vehicle incident.

Roads were slick in Chilliwack Saturday evening due to steady precipitation that began falling at roughly 1 p.m. earlier in the day.