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Operation Red Nose Volunteers Hit By Possible Drunk Driver Near Kamloops, B.C.

The Canadian Press, 02 Jan, 2020 09:51 PM

    KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A volunteer organization that offers free rides to drivers who may have been drinking says some of its members working near Kamloops, B.C., on New Year's Eve were involved in a crash with a suspected impaired driver.

     

    None of the five people in the two vehicles that were part of Operation Red Nose was seriously hurt.

     

    The program operates during the holiday season and uses the person's own vehicle, while a second Red Nose member follows in a separate car to collect the volunteer driver.

     

    Spokeswoman Katie Klassen says a volunteer, followed by a second vehicle, was transporting clients just before midnight on New Year's Eve when both vehicles were hit.

     

    She says police and ambulance attended and the five people in the vehicles were shaken but unhurt.

     

    Klassen didn't have details on possible charges against the suspected impaired driver, and says she's pleased the situation was not more serious.

     

    "It's just unfortunate that someone did not make the right decision to take an alternative ride home, and that it affected our volunteers," she said. (CFJC, CHNL)

     

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