Investigation underway after 22-year-old with novice driver’s license crashes into Mission home

MISSION – Mission RCMP are investigating a motor vehicle incident in which a 22-year-old with a novice driver’s license crashed into a house in Mission last week.

According to a statement from Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr, police were called to a home near Ferndale Avenue and Dewdney Trunk Road at 3:19 a.m. on February 5 after a vehicle crashed into a home. Officers arrived to find a red Honda Civic sticking halfway into the home.

Corporal Mohr says initial evidence suggested that the vehicle failed to stop at a three-way intersection, and drove into a house. The car struck the home and drove right into a bedroom where a resident was asleep, but amazingly the resident was not seriously injured, despite waking up to a car overtop of her bed. 

The driver, a 22-year old male from Mission, allegedly exhibited signs of being impaired by liquor, and was transported to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.  Because he was unable to provide a breath sample at the hospital, an officer issued what’s known as a “blood demand”, leading medical staff to draw blood from the driver so that his blood-alcohol level could be analyzed.