West Vancouver police say impaired driving is suspected in a spectacular head-on crash in Dundarave Friday evening.
Police say the driver of an eastbound Range Rover crossed over the centre line on Marine Drive at 22nd Street, just after 8 p.m. and into the path of an oncoming Subaru Outback, according to Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman.
Witness Amanda Rawlings described the Range Rover flipping over one and a half times, coming to rest on its roof.
“It’s was like an aerial stunt from a movie. I was like, ‘What the crap? There’s a car in the air,’” she said. “Both cars were just ripped apart. It was harsh. … She had some speed.”
Rawlings’ husband rushed outside to pull the woman from the wreck. She appeared to be in complete shock but not injured. The driver and passenger of the Subaru also escaped injury, police say.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation by the investigator estimated $100,000 in damage if both vehicles are writeoffs, according to police.
“Information from witnesses and the officers’ own observations at the scene led them to initiate an impaired driving investigation and all the detail of that gets to be laid out at court,” Palmer said.
The driver of the Range Rover, a 35-year-old West Vancouver woman, was released on a promise to appear in court on April 18. Police have recommended the Crown lay a charge of refusing to comply with a breath demand.
The woman will have to get a ride to court though as police also served her with a 90-day administrative driving prohibition.
