SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Emergency crews responded to the second vehicle rollover to occur within two days on Highway 3 Friday morning after an SUV slid off the road, and rolled over into the ditch.

A Yellowknife firefighter peers into the windshield of a SUV that rolled off the road heading toward Behchoko on Highway 3. The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries. This was the second rollover on Highway 3 in two days due to slippery road conditions. - Ian Vaydik/NNSL photo

Police, municipal enforcement officers and fire crews responded to a single vehicle accident involving a blue SUV at around 11:30 a.m.

Yellowknife fire chief Darcy Hernblad said the vehicle was heading toward Behchoko when it slid off the road. The driver, who was the only occupant, got out of the vehicle and was being helped by a good Samaritan who was driving by on the highway at the time of the accident, said Hernblad.

"They actually put him in a vehicle and (he) was being taken to the hospital," Hernblad said of the SUV driver, adding once the good Samaritan saw emergency crews heading to the scene the person turned around and drove back to the accident scene to wait.

The accident victim couldn't remember everything that happened during the incident and medical personnel took precaution by putting him on a backboard with undisclosed injuries and transported him to Stanton Hospital, said Hernblad.

The vehicle was in the ditch on the right-hand side of the road near the Yellowknife Golf Club, just before the turn-off to Deh Cho Boulevard.

Debris from the accident littered the area around the vehicle and only the rear passenger window remained intact.

News/North experienced slippery road conditions leading up to the accident scene and in the area of the SUV and emergency crews.

A vehicle rollover on Thursday was also attributed to icy road conditions on Highway 3, according to a fire department press release.

The lone female occupant lost control and her vehicle flipped onto the driver's side.

The woman was helped from her vehicle by a passing driver who witnessed the accident, according to the press release.

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