Photo: CKRW file.
Whitehorse, YT – A sharp-eyed highway worker is being credited with helping locate a missing driver following a crash on the North Klondike Highway.
On Monday, June 30, Mayo RCMP received a report of a person who failed to arrive in Whitehorse after leaving Dawson City earlier that morning. Hours later, a Yukon Highways and Public Works employee noticed a damaged road sign near kilometre 382 and discovered a vehicle that had flipped and slid roughly 65 metres down a steep embankment.
Emergency crews extricated the injured driver with help from a police vehicle winch. The driver was taken by ambulance to Carmacks Airport and medevacked to Whitehorse General Hospital.
RCMP say the outcome could have been much worse without the worker’s attention to detail.
