2 people dead after Saturday night collision in Maple Ridge

Two people are dead followinga collision in Maple Ridge, B.C., thatshut down the Lougheed Highway at 280th Street overnight.

Dawn Roberts, a spokesperson for the B.C. RCMP, said police received a call around 11:30 p.m.Saturday and arrived at thescene to find a serious crash involving two cars.

"Numerous efforts were made on scene to both locate and extricate all those that may have been involved," she said."In the end, we did declare two individuals deceasedon scene from one vehicle."

"It was a fairly significant scene in that there was extensive damage to both vehicles as well as a fairly wide debris field," Roberts added.

She saidcrews worked through the night to clear the scene and reopened the LougheedHighway at around 9 a.m. Sunday.

Roberts said one of the cars was travelling eastbound when it collided with a vehicleheadedin the other direction but thecause of the crash is not yet known.

She said the driver of the other car is expected to be OK.

"The lone person in that one vehicle was airlifted to hospital with what has been described as serious but hopefully non-life threatening injuries," she said.

Ridge Meadows RCMPis handling the investigationand asking anyone who may have witnessed the incidentto contact them.