For 15 years, Brent Burton's family and an assortment of pets, horses, and animals have lived in the kind of peaceful bucolic Okanagan farm many dream of owning.

So when in August 2022, a Ford SUV came careening off a nearby Highway 97 embankment, smashed though fencing and destroyed a boat in storage, Burton wrote it all off as "a fluke."

"A young fella passed out at the wheel ... he flew 120 feet [36 metres]," Burton told _CBC Radio West's_ Sarah Penton.

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"He walked away basically unscathed. He had a bit of a rash on his elbow, but he was pretty lucky to be alive."

[Out of control vehicles flying off the Highway 97 embankment often crash into Burton's barn, shed, or boat, causing thousands of dollars in damage and insuran

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