West Vancouver police are investigating after a vehicle inexplicably went off the Sea to Sky Highway and rolled 60 metres down an embankment, sending the lone occupant to hospital.
The accident happened around 7 a.m. Sunday, on Highway 99 just south of Pasco Road.
Police only learned of the crash after the driver, a 64-year-old Vancouver woman, climbed back up to the highway where a passing driver noticed her and called 9-1-1. She suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, including cuts and bruises, a dislocated elbow and a possible fracture to her ankle, according to police.
The victim has told police she has no memory of the moments leading up to the crash, making the cause something of a mystery.
Police say impairment from drugs or alcohol is not an issue and that an investigation of the crash site offers no indication the vehicle was moving at excessive speed or dangerously.
"No charges are considered and any further inquiry into her condition is going to be primarily a medical issue," said Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman.
The area where the vehicle left the road does not have a concrete barrier or steel guardrail.
Southbound lanes of Highway 99 between Pasco Road and the Eagleridge Junction were closed for roughly three hours early Sunday afternoon while crews recovered vehicle.
