Emergency personnel were kept busy over a two-hour period late Thursday afternoon as a coating of snow made streets and roads very slippery. On Highway 97 just south of Trout Creek there were at least four accidents in a two-kilometre section.
In one of those accidents Penticton Fire Rescue members spent about 30 minutes extricating the driver of a pickup truck with the Jaws of Life after it went off the west side the highway and wound about 100 off the road narrowly missing a power pole.
It's believed the truck rolled several times however once freed the driver was able to walk to the ambulance.