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Two people were taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning following a head-on crash that shut down the Barnet Highway.
Burnaby RCMP said the crash happened near the Suncor intersection just before 7 a.m.
An electric vehicle burst into flames and was fully involved when firefighters arrived, RCMP said, but they were able to pull the driver out.
“EV battery, the technology, the fires tend to not want to go out, so we have a blanket that we can blanket the vehicle to kind of smother it and reduce the flare-up of the car fire,” Burnaby Asst. Fire Chief Dan Walton said.
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A second vehicle, a Jeep, went off the road and trapped the driver inside.
Both drivers had serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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“You know we have done some canvassing in the area, we are asking anyone who was on Barnet, doesn’t even have to be at Suncor Energy where the collision occurred, if you were east or west of there say between 6:30 and 7 o’clock we would love to hear from you because sometimes we just want to see driving evidence minutes or 10 to 15 minutes before the collision occurred,” Cpl. Mike Kalanj with Burnaby RCMP said.
Drivers are being asked to avoid the Barnet Highway at this time.
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