Skip to content

Landslide drags truck with two people inside into Humber River in Corner Brook, N.L.

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Two people caught in a landslide in western Newfoundland narrowly avoided disaster when their truck was swept into a river shortly after midnight.
2024040211044-660c1ea9711389a37bbe3c0djpeg
Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. A truck caught in a landslide in western Newfoundland in the early hours of Tuesday narrowly avoided disaster. Todd Flynn, director of protective services for the City of Corner Brook, says the truck carrying two people was "pushed off the road by the landslide debris" that came down off a hill, dragging the vehicle into Humber River.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

CORNER BROOK, N.L. — Two people caught in a landslide in western Newfoundland narrowly avoided disaster when their truck was swept into a river shortly after midnight.

Todd Flynn, director of protective services for the City of Corner Brook, says debris rolling down a hill from a landslide pushed a truck with two people inside off the road and into the Humber River.

Flynn says that soon after a car carrying two people got tangled up in the debris on the road.

The people in both vehicles were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Flynn says divers will make sure there are no other vehicles that washed into the Humber River.

He says Riverside Road from Route 440 to Humber Road will remain closed until engineers confirm it is safe for travel.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 2, 2024.

The Canadian Press

push icon
Be the first to read breaking stories. Enable push notifications on your device. Disable anytime.
No thanks