Police are investigating a single vehicle collision on South Shore Rd in Mesachie Lake, resulting in one fatality.

On May 28, at approximately 1:15 a.m., Lake Cowichan RCMP responded to the 9000 block of South Shore Rd in Mesachie Lake after receiving a report of a single vehicle crash, involving five occupants in a red 2007 Honda Civic. As Mesachie Lake Fire Dept and BC Emergency Health Services responded, it was determined that four of the vehicle occupants were injured and transported to hospital with serious injuries and one passenger died as a result of his injuries.

“The road was closed to traffic to allow for a traffic analyst to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the crash” said Corporal Alex Bérubé, spokesperson for the BC RCMP. “Criminality is believed to have played a contributing factor leading up to the fatal collision.”