Nakusp lost one of its residents in a single vehicle accident on Highway 6, August 3, at approximately 9:00 a.m., Diane Koenig rolled her SUV roughly 41 kilometres from Lumby near Angel Falls. Koenig died at the scene. Koenig’s 15 year-old daughter was the only other occupant in the vehicle. She was taken to Vernon Jubilee Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and was later released.
RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says that the accident is “currently being investigated by our crash analysis team, which will take some time to complete.”