An accident on the Lougheed Highway in Mission Wednesday evening has left one person dead.
Just after 7 p.m. emergency crews responded to a serious MVA on Lougheed Highway just west of Shook Street in the Hatzic area.
Crews arrived to find a head-on collision between a passenger car and a semi-truck and trailer
Both vehicles had gone off to either side of the road with debris strewn all over the highway.
A thermal imaging camera and RCMP K9 unit were utilized at the scene.
Police are still investigating the cause of the accident but the passenger in the car has died.
The highway was closed for several hours while the RCMP鈥檚 ICARS Team investigated the crash.
The highway is now open.
