Hoyt washout victim blames transportation department for crash

The man who drove his SUV into a road washout in Hoyt after Wednesday's rain storm says officials should have been quicker to set up a road block.

Patrick Morrison suffered a broken nose and some bruises when he drove into the eight-metre deep washout.

"I'm hurting. I don't even know," he said.

"When you flip a car off a 25-foot bank."

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Morrisonsays he and his vehicle should never had ended up in the bottom of the washed-out road.

"Until I got to about here and seen that gone, I jammed both feet on the brakes," he said, standing on Route 101 and pointing to where his vehicle crashed.

"There was nothing here to tell me that I couldn't go across it. I wasn't going fast.

"It should have been marked. It's not right."

Morrisonsaid hebelieves the washout could have been avoided if the proper sign and markers werein place.

"[The water] came downthe road. Like, this turned into a river because there's no culvert up here," he said.

Morrison'sChevrolet Blazer landed on its roof when when droveinto the washout on Route 101.

The area was so flooded at the time he had to be brought to an ambulance by boat.

He was one of at least two people to drive into a road washout following the storm.

RCMPsaid they were called to 10 vehicle accidents causes by collapsed roads or hydroplaning.

The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure's website for traffic advisories and road construction indicates more than 70 roads in the province are affected by washouts or flooding.