Outpouring of support for victim of last weekend’s fatal crash on the Coquihalla Highway
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MERRITT – There’s been an outpouring of financial support for the family of a man who tragically died in last weekend’s fatal wrong-way crash on the Coquihalla Highway near Merritt.
According to the text of a GoFundMe, Jaskeerat Singh lost his life in a motor vehicle incident on Saturday, October 17 near Merritt.
BC Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Michael McLaughlin says police were called to Hwy. 5 Saturday morning, Oct. 17 after getting multiple complaints about a vehicle driving southbound in the northbound lanes. While en route to intercept the vehicle, police learned of a head-on collision just south of the Helmer exit near Merritt. When BC Highway Patrol officers got to the scene, they found a black Toyota Tacoma and a white Toyota Rav 4 that were both heavily damaged.
One passenger in a Toyota Rav 4, Singh, died at the scene. Three other Surrey men between the ages of 24 and 38 were in the white Toyota, and all three were taken to hospital with serious injuries, Sgt. McLaughlin said. The lone occupant of the black Toyota Tacoma, a 22-year-old Coldwater man, was detained for suspected impaired driving.
