A truck crash on the Trans Canada Highway through View Royal caused significant delays on Thursday.
West Shore RCMP posted to X, formally Twitter, in the noon hour to say they were responding to a "collision on the Trans Canada Hwy near the 6 mile off ramp."
It caused lane closures on the Trans Canada Highway and long back-ups for a few hours but the crash seemed to be cleared, and the lane closures lifted, by 3pm.
View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst tells C-FAX 1070 that he was a witness to the crash, as he was driving down the highway at the time.
"It was the most bizarre slow motion thing I've ever seen... it was just in front of us. The truck went off the road and then flipped over on its side and skidded down the road," Hurst told C-FAX 1070's Ryan Price. "It was a different perspective being the person who calls in the accident."
He says there was one injury, described as serious but not life threatening. The female driver of the truck was taken to Victoria General Hospital to be checked out.
Hurst says the truck was one of two trucks filled with sound equipment, including speakers and sound boards and cables. The sound gear was retrieved by the owner before the truck was towed. Hurst says some was so heavy it needed a special crane truck to lift it out.