he had quite a story

Last Friday one of my coffee pals was in the thick of things for a while...he was where the red mark is.....on his way home heading east of chilliwack.....he had quite a story.....he was a split second away from being involved....anyway he got stopped and a lot of others as well...they did what they could (fire extinguishers)....the authorities arrived quickly and he was lucky enough to be let through....a tight squeeze between all the tossed up debris..then they held everyone up for 4 hours...the traffic must have been backed up 20 miles or more...how the hell they survived that eh.....he said it happened so fast and stuff was cartwheeling around like in the movies....the children are fine and the mum is not to bad off..wow...

the car with kids lost control and came over from the left (westbound freeway lane) and smacked into the vehicle and trailer you see at the right roadside...that one was immediately in front of my pal...yipes

He was side by with a transport and they both had to do some serious braking to keep out of it....the transport is still in the picture....

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the Trans-Canada Hwy., east of Chilliwack, B.C. was reopened Friday evening after being closed for five hours as rescue crews dealt with the aftermath of a head on collision involving an SUV and a black sedan.
The collision head earlier left one car upside down on the highway, and the SUV and its badly-damaged trailer lying in the ditch nearby.
As CTV's Chopper 9 helicopter hovered above, rescue crews could be seen searching the roadside bush any passengers, who might have been ejected from the vehicles.
One of the accident victims, a woman, was loaded on a stretcher into a waiting Medivac helicopter.
Another women and two small children survived with what police said were non life-threatening injuries.
Disruption caused by the collision left traffic backed up along the Trans-Canada for many kilometers.
But by 6:00 p.m. Friday, traffic flows had returned to normal.