{"id":488961,"date":"2026-01-03T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:50:12","slug":"police-watchdog-investigating-fatal-crash-in-chilliwack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488961\/","title":{"rendered":"Police watchdog investigating fatal crash in Chilliwack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) says it is investigating a fatal crash that took place in Chilliwack on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilliwack RCMP was called to the scene of a single-vehicle crash involving a white Ford pickup truck near the intersection of Yale and Banford roads shortly after 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RCMP reported no police involvement with the pickup truck prior to the collision, and the IIO was not notified at the time,\u201d IIO said Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of information received from the public on Dec. 29, the IIO is now investigating the incident and the circumstances that led up to the collision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/27\/chilliwack-bc-fatal-collision-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mounties said the driver, a 27-year-old man, was the only occupant<\/a><\/strong> inside the vehicle when he lost control and hit a power pole. At the time, police said that alcohol was not believed to be a factor but that speed may have contributed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"4370424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chilliwack-Fatal-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Yale Road and Banford Road in Chilliwack on Saturday December 27, 2025. (CityNews Image)\" class=\"wp-image-4370424\"  \/>Yale Road and Banford Road in Chilliwack on Saturday December 27, 2025. (CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"4370423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chilliwack-Fatal-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Yale Road and Banford Road in Chilliwack on Saturday December 27, 2025. (CityNews Image)\" class=\"wp-image-4370423\"  \/>Yale Road and Banford Road in Chilliwack on Saturday December 27, 2025. (CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>The IIO is the civilian oversight agency for police and detention guards in B.C. It is called in to investigate after any police-related incidents that result in death or serious injury, whether or not there are any allegations of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the IIO Witness Line at 1-855-446-8477 or use the contact form on the iiobc.ca website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) says it is investigating a fatal crash that took place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-488961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830078601340703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}