Image: TK Coleman via Facebook

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Coquihalla Highway

UPDATE: One person hospitalized after crash on the Coquihalla Highway Thursday morning

Oct 30, 2025 | 10:49 AM

UPDATE: Q101.ca (Merritt) is reporting that one person was taken to hospital by air ambulance in a stable condition after a crash on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt.

BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) says it was called around 8:54 a.m. Thursday (Oct. 30) morning, to a vehicle incident in Brodie.

“Two ambulances with primary care paramedics and an air ambulance with critical care paramedics responded to the scene,” said Brian Twaites, a Public Information Officer with BCEHS.

“Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to one patient who was transported by air to the hospital in stable condition.”

At 9:51 a.m. Thursday, DriveBC reported that traffic on the Coquihalla was blocked in both directions between exits 238 and 250 as an air ambulance had landed on the highway. About an hour later – at 10:47 a.m. – it said traffic was flowing once again.

INCLUSIVE WORK PROGRAM

New contract to help employ recycling depot workers facing job loss in Mission

14h ago

FATAL CRASH

1 dead after single-vehicle collision at Lougheed Highway Saturday

14h ago

Surrey Police Service say a nine-year-old has died after collision with large vehicle

16h ago

At this time, its not clear what caused the crash.

Original story: 

COQUIHALLA HIGHWAY — Details are limited at this point, but DriveBC reported in the past hour that traffic on the Coquihalla Highway was blocked in both directions due to an unspecified motor vehicle incident.

DriveBC reported at 9:51 a.m. Thursday morning that traffic was blocked in both directions of Highway 5 (Coq Highway) between exits 238 and 250 due to an air ambulance that landed on the highway.

DriveBC said the highway would reopen once the helicopter landed.

A Facebook user reported at 10:43 a.m. that traffic is starting to move again.

The PulsePoint app shows multiple ambulances were dispatched for a traffic incident that occurred at about 8:51 a.m.