4 family members die in another multiple-fatality B.C. road crash

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Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a collision on Highway 3 in the southern Interior, the latest in a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.

2 cars, tractor trailer involved in Hwy 3 collision; 14 people have died in 4 separate crashes in past week

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RCMP say a fatal crash involving two cars and a tractor trailer in Keremeos, B.C., shut Highway 3 for eight hours on Wednesday. (CBC)

Police in British Columbia say four people are dead after a collision on Highway 3 in the southern Interior, the latest in a spate of multiple-fatality crashes in the province in the past week.

RCMP say the crash involving two cars and a tractor trailer near Becks Road in Keremeos shut Highway 3 for eight hours on Wednesday.

They say four members of the same extended family, all in the same vehicle, were found dead at the scene of the “terrible tragedy” that took place around 11:30 a.m. PT.

Four separate crashes in B.C. have claimed 14 lives in the past week.

Four people were killed last Friday in a crash in the West Kootenays on Highway 6; a family of three including an infant died in Agassiz on the Lougheed Highway on Tuesday morning; and another three people died when their vehicle went over an embankment in Wilmer, north of Invermere, on Tuesday night.

RCMP say the cause of the crash in Keremeos is under investigation.

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