UPDATE: Second victim in truck crash identified
The BC Coroners Service has released the identify of the second man who died in a fiery head-on truck crash on Highway 5A on Oct. 5.
Kewal Singh Kailey, 49, of Abbotsford, was driving one of the rigs that collided near Stump Lake, about 40 kilometres south of Kamloops.
The driver of the second truck, Gary Miller of Kamloops, was also killed
in the collision and resulting fire.
Police say a logging truck was travelling south and a truck carrying lime was heading north when the two vehicles crashed into each other, creating a fiery wreck that led to a grass fire starting nearby.
The BC Coroners Service could not specify to KTW which driver was driving which vehicle.
Weather is not considered a factor as conditions in the area had been clear and dry.
The Coroners Service and RCMP continue to investigate the accident, which has prompted Kamloops-South Thompson Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger to renew his call for truck traffic to be banned from the secondary highway route linking Kamloops and Merritt.
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