Monday afternoon accident on Sooke Road closed road completely for three hours
Sooke’s Fire Chief Steven Sorensen posted this picture on Twitter at around 7:15 on Monday evening following an accident that occurred on Sooke Rd close to the Shell gas station, before 5 p.m., late Monday afternoon. Sorensen noted, “Last vehicle being picked up by tow truck. #sooke Road will open in a few minutes”
Traffic was backed right up to the four-lanes. Just after 8 p.m. and congestion was still apparent.
Monday, May 11 2015
A head-on collision at the 5500 block of Sooke Road closed the road completely for three hours on Monday afternoon. It re-opened three hours later, just before 7:30 p.m.
The crash happened close to the Shell gas station on the 5500 block, which meant that there was no detour available.
The three hour stand-still may have contributed to a shortening of tempers. “Parked on Sooke Rd?” tweeted one person, “Do the cars around you a favour, and stop blasting your awful music. I’m looking at you [car description removed -ed].”
Sooke Councillor Kerrie Reay (Twitter handle: @KerrieReay), wanting to make a 7 p.m. Council meeting, tweeted, “Traffic is stopped to 4 lanes 15kms of backed up traffic … @SookeCa we definitely need vision for alternate 4 lane rd to Sooke.”
Reay later posted a photograph of herself and another woman walking alongside the road, with this update: “Heather & I hoofing it from 17 Mile, nice @BCTransit picked us up at Cooper’Cove, have to walk #Sooke Council mtg 7pm ”
Sooke PocketNews hosts a live stream of current traffic issues on our Traffic page, Traffic page, put there to keep the residents of Sooke apprised of all current events impacting traffic. On this page, we stream communications from the Fire Chief as well as from the District of Sooke.
Thanks also to Phil and Teri-Lynn for the personal alerts.
Our thoughts are with the many people who’s lives were altered today.
-Britt Santowski
Time to push a road through Goldstream and over to Otter Point.
hehehe Kim
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I hope no one was hurt!
Heard on CFAX that all four went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Black SUV driven by a solo male, and the white minivan driven by a woman with two kids in the car. -Britt
Hope this isn’t too controversial, yet it’s time to change the language when we describe these incidents. Most of the time, they are preventable, so can we describe them as accidents? Sometimes making small changes such as this help us realize that there are things we can do to prevent these kinds of tragedies.
ICBC and the RCMP have already changed the language, from “accident” to “crash.” I’m a laggard, I suppose, as for me the opposite of “by accident” is “on purpose,” and so I often default back to the old term, accident. Because even though it could have been avoided somehow, it’s certainly not an on-purpose thing. -Britt
I hear you Britt – no one gets up in the morning intending to be in a crash. Hopefully the discourse will help drivers be more cautious.
Was everyone ok? Speedy recovery to them all.
This is becoming all too familiar on Sooke rd and only gotten worse since cell phones and texting . I hope texting wasn’t the cause of this crash .. Hope everyone involved is ok .
Thanks for not posting some of the pics going around. Bloody intrusive I’d say. I’d be so upset to look around while being treated & see everyone with a camera or a phone taking my picture. No respect.
Was it raining… I lived in Sooke from 76-06 whenever it drizzled rain the sirens were going .. Slick greasy roads..
Speaking of rain, it JUST started, and there’s sirens 😛
Greasy roads. Nothing serious I hope. 24 today here. !