Logging truck mechanical failure kills mother and twin daughters near Cranbrook

Courtney Johnson was driving her eight year old twins, Taylor and Hayley, to school headed east towards Cranbrook on Highway 3 on the morning of Thursday, June 1. According to police that’s when a logging truck in the westbound lane experienced a mechanical problem, causing it to cross the centre lane and hit Johnson’s Chevrolet Suburban. A third vehicle took evasive maneuvers and went off the highway. Police responded, but Johnson and her two daughters were pronounced dead at the sc