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Dashcam footage captures near head-on highway collision in Enderby

Head-on barely avoided

A Salmon Arm resident captured a scary moment on dashcam Monday as he was driving near Enderby.

Glen Grimes was travelling north on Highway 97A near the Starlight Drive-In when a Toyota came straight towards traffic in the wrong lane.

The older model Corolla wasn't passing any other vehicle and almost crashed head on into an SUV in front of Grimes.

The driver of the SUV veered off onto the shoulder to avoid a collision.

"I was driving home to Salmon Arm from Armstrong and a driver in an older model Toyota was driving in the oncoming lane. It nearly took out the black SUV in front of me and just about collided with me," says Grimes.

This was not a case of (them) overtaking someone, they basically forced the black SUV onto the shoulder and only when they saw my car did they attempt a corrective action."

Grimes says the incident happened on the 100 km/h stretch of the highway, and traffic was moving at about the limit.

He was able pull close-up images of the Toyota from the video and says they were handed over to police.

He's even offering his own reward of $500 for information that leads to pursuing a violation against the driver.

"At speeds of 100 km/h, this could have easily been a fatality," he says.



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