Image: Julie Hiscock / A B.C. Emergency Health Services air ambulance lifted off from Chilliwack Airport at approximately 2:34 a.m. early Tuesday to transport a patient following a motor vehicle incident on Ryder Lake Road in Chilliwack.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Motor vehicle incident overnight

Patient airlifted from Chilliwack Airport after motor vehicle accident on Ryder Lake Road overnight (VIDEO

Dec 23, 2025 | 10:44 AM

CHILLIWACK — A patient was airlifted to hospital overnight after a serious motor vehicle incident on Ryder Lake Road in Chilliwack.

A spokesperson for B.C. Emergency Health Services told Fraser Valley Today in an emailed statement that paramedics received a call at 12:43 a.m. early Tuesday morning, Dec. 23 about a motor vehicle in the 6300 block of Ryder Lake Road in Chilliwack.

“One ambulance with primary care paramedics and an ambulance with advanced care paramedics attended the scene. Paramedics provided emergency medical care and transported one patient by ground to a waiting air ambulance with critical care paramedics,” said Brian Twaites, BCEHS Paramedic Public Information Officer.

While listening to the scanner as she conducted deliveries for her graveyard shift job, Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock said she heard the initial call come in about a motor vehicle incident.

“When the call came through, the individual had gone off the road. There was possible entrapment,” she said. “Thankfully, the car was not on fire, and the individual was rescued out of their sunroof.”

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A person on Facebook claimed the injured patient had to be extricated.

“He had to be taken out of the vehicle with the jaws of life, fully assisted, he was not doing well, many injuries,” the person claimed on Facebook. “The vehicle passed through our property before landing just on the neighbour’s property, vehicle on its side in a treed area.”

A video sent to Fraser Valley Today by Hiscock shows a helicopter taking off from Chilliwack Airport at approximately 2:34 a.m.

The patient was then transported to hospital in serious but stable condition, Twaites said.