Highway 1 was shut down for more than an hour Wednesday morning following a dramatic crash on The Cut.
A glass delivery truck was pulled off to the side of The Cut near the Lynn Valley exit just before 7 a.m. when the truck began to roll backwards into oncoming traffic, according to Cpl. Robert McDonald, spokesman for the Port Mann Freeway Patrol. The result was a brief chain reaction series of collisions.
"My understanding is, for some reason, the emergency brake wasn't put on properly and it rolled back onto a motorcycle and two cars that were behind him," McDonald said. After the initial highway pileup, the truck rolled off The Cut and into the bank on the north side.
Though one person was taken to hospital, McDonald said there were no major injures.
McDonald said the driver is now facing two violation tickets.
By the time police and District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services crews had one lane of the highway reopened more than an hour later, traffic gridlock extended past the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing all the way to the Coquitlam Burnaby border.
