A week later and police are still looking for suspects after a stolen Bentley fled the wrong way up the Coquihalla.

The incident gained public interest after a driver’s dashcam video showed the Bentley travelling the wrong way on the highway, just north of Hope.

Merritt RCMP Staff Sgt. Lorne Wood says the suspects are a Caucasian male and female, which police determined after trying to stop the Bentley in the Nicola Valley.

“We were pretty short on time, the driver saw the road check and then turned, drove for a short distance on the wrong side of the highway. He drove basically southbound in the northbound lane, crossed the meridian and took the (Okanagan) Connector, after nearly striking a parked police vehicle,” Wood says.

“Luckily people on the road saw this car coming and managed to get out of the way, like on that dashcam video. Because… I can’t imagine that people are going to survive that crash,” Wood says. “Basically I’ve been here for a year, and I can’t think of another case here where we’ve had somebody driving like that, up the wrong side of the highway on the Coquihalla and basically focus people off the road.”

The Bentley, which had been stolen earlier in the day from a home in Coquitlam, was later found abandoned on a logging road in the South Okanagan.

Anyone with  information is asked to contact RCMP.