Two people were taken to hospital with varying degrees of injuries after a vehicle collision in Nanaimo on Saturday.
Two people, both aged 19-years-old, and a three-week old infant were headed southbound on Jingle Pot Road in Nanaimo in a GMC Jimmy when the male driver lost control of the vehicle.
At approximately 3:30 p.m. on May 23, the Jimmy crossed the centre line and crashed into a pickup truck that was headed northbound.
The vehicle carrying the three occupants then came to rest in a ditch on the side of the road.
When emergency services arrived on site, they found that the 19-year-old female passenger was severely injured and had to be extracted from the vehicle.
She was airlifted to a hospital in Victoria with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Fortunately her baby was not injured in the crash, but was taken to hospital as a precaution.
The driver, a 19-year-old man, sustained minor injuries and he was taken to Nanaimo hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, the pickup truck they collided into was occupied by a lone driver — a 33-year-old man — who was not injured in the crash. The vehicle, however, sustained significant damage.
Both cars were towed from the scene of the crash on Jingle Pot Road at Kilpatrick Road, and the GMC Jimmy will go through a mechanical inspection.
Authorities are in the process of investigating the incident.
