On Sept. 3, 2025 all eastbound lanes of Highway 1 between Yale Road West and Lickman Road were closed off. According to The Abbotsford News, sometime after 3 p.m. a multi-car collision occurred resulting in one of the vehicles flipping multiple times before coming to a stop off the Highway. The vehicle landed upside down, trapping the driver of the vehicle inside.
First responders worked quickly to close down the Highway and retrieve the man from the flipped vehicle. Both directions closed as a helicopter landed on a temporary landing zone set up directly on the Highway. The man was eventually freed from the car and taken to the hospital by helicopter between 4:13-4:30 p.m.
In an X post Cpl. Dave Noon, forensic collision deconstructionist with the Lower Mainland Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service, informed users that the Eastbound lanes would “remain closed […] for several hours” as investigations took place.
At 11:19 p.m. the lanes going both directions were re-opened for public use.
