Date: Sunday, June 6th, 2021
File: 21-22266
Victoria, BC – VicPD Traffic officers, including collision investigators, continue to investigate a single-vehicle crash that sent four people to hospital early this morning.
Officers were called to the intersection of Fisgard and Blanshard streets just after 12:10 a.m. this morning for a report that a vehicle had crashed into a building. B.C. Emergency Health Services paramedics and Victoria Fire Department firefighters were on scene working to extract and stabilize the vehicle occupants. Of the five people in the vehicle at the time of the crash, four were transported to hospital.
Two of the occupants suffered potentially life-altering injuries in the collision and remain in hospital. The other occupants who were transported to hospital suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated and released.
Two buildings were damaged in the crash.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested and transported to cells. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
If you have information about this crash and have not yet spoken to officers, please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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