The Washington State Patrol is investigating three separate wrong-way crashes that happened in Pierce County Sunday morning, with one crash being fatal.
The Washington State Patrol is investigating three separate wrong-way crashes that happened in Pierce County Sunday morning, with one crash being fatal.WSP says the first crash happened just after 2 a.m. on westbound State Route 512.Troopers say the causing driver was traveling eastbound in the westbound lane. There were two people in the causing SUV, including a woman and her one-and-a-half year old infant.
The passenger suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and the causing driver was also arrested for DUI vehicular assault.The third crash was on northbound I-705, happening not long after the second crash.WSP says a wrong-way driver struck a small SUV head on, and the causing driver was arrested for DUI.After the crash, another vehicle came through the scene and struck one of the occupants of the victim car.
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