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By Mike Vanden Bosch

Motor Vehicle incident

Single motorcycle rider airlifted to Vancouver trauma centre after accident on Harrison East FSR overnight

Jun 24, 2025 | 9:47 AM

UPDATE 11:35 A.M. TUESDAY: Agassiz Fire Chief Gerald Basten has confirmed that its personnel were dispatched to a motor vehicle incident on Tuesday, June 24, at 2:33 a.m. to the Harrison Lake East Forest Service Road. Chief Basten says the incident involved a single rider on a motorcycle approximately 16 kilometers up the forest service road.

Chief Basten says the rider suffered significant injuries. A B.C. EHS medivac helicopter was dispatched to Centennial Park in Agassiz and transferred the rider to a trauma centre in Vancouver. Fire crews, along with B.C. EHS paramedics, attended to the scene and transported the occupant to the air ambulance, Chief Basten said.

Original story below from 9:47 a.m. Tuesday morning: 

HARRISON EAST FOREST SERVICE ROAD (AGASSIZ) — A B.C. Emergency Health Services spokesperson has confirmed that one person was airlifted to hospital after a motor vehicle incident on Harrison East Forest Service Road early Tuesday morning (June 24).

According to Pulse Point, B.C. Emergency Health Services was advised about a motor vehicle incident at 2:29 a.m. on Harrison East FSR north of Harrison Hot Springs/Agassiz. PHSA recorded a similar time for the incident.

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“BC Emergency Health Services received a call at 2:33 a.m. on June 24 regarding a motor vehicle incident at Harrison East Forest Service Road,” PHSA spokesperson Vincent Chou said. “Two ambulances with primary care paramedics, one ambulance with advanced care paramedics and one air ambulance responded. Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to one patient on scene. The patient was transported to hospital in critical condition.”

Julie Hiscock, a Chilliwack resident who works graveyard and monitors overnight emergency scanner traffic, says the motor vehicle incident involved a vehicle down an embankment, leading emergency responders to dispatch a helicopter that later landed at the fairgrounds in Agassiz.

Agassiz-area residents reported hearing a helicopter in the middle of the night, with one person saying the helicopter left the Agassiz fairgrounds at 5:36 a.m.