Two people reportedly fled the scene of a single vehicle accident on Upper Bench Road in Penticton just before 2 p.m. Sunday.
Bill Bishop, who lives on the 200 block down the street, was in the back yard working at the time of the accident.
“I heard that ‘crash’ and I ran up and could see the car,” Bishop said, adding that he went over and asked if people were okay. They said ‘yes we are fine’ and they both got out, a young guy and a young girl, and said ‘don’t call the police’. “
Bishop told them it was too late, that was the first thing he did. He continued his story as he examined the damage to his garden that the late model Silver Hyundai had done. “They got out and went down the street, he (male) said he had a flat tire on the right side, he said that, and you can see where it was going through there (digging) and hitting the trees, what for a mess.
“They weren’t stumbling around or anything.”
The crews of the Penticton fire department and a rescue service from British Columbia arrived on site and the RCMP shortly afterwards.
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Bishop said this is not the first accident that his property is on a straight road.
“This is probably the fifth time people have been through here. Let’s just call this the Naramata Highway,” he said, referring to the high speed on Upper Bench Road.
The police did not have any further details about the accident.
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The crews of the Penticton fire department responded to an accident on Sunday in Upper Bench Road in which the two occupants of the vehicle presumably escaped from the scene. (Mark Brett – Western News)
