One person sent to hospital after second serious collision near Tappen

Just hours after a serious motor vehicle collision left one person dead outside a Shuswap community, a second collision in the same area sent a person to hospital.

Salmon Arm RCMP said officers responded to reports of a collision on the Trans Canada Highway near the intersection of James Road just north of Tappen at around 5:20 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 4.

The highway needed to be closed for a second time that day in order to investigate the collision.

Mounties say a white SUV had been travelling west on Highway 1 in a passing lane and was passing another westbound vehicle when it crossed the centre line and collided head on with an eastbound vehicle.