Washington State Patrol stated that 2 teenage girls were seriously injured in a motor vehicle crash after being struck by a dump truck while attempting to make a turn.
Witnesses and troopers on the scene stated that a Lexus being driven by 17-year-old Sydney Stangel was turning left from Trent Avenue and did not yield. The car was then hit by an oncoming dump truck.
Witness accounts the car then rolled a few times before hitting a pole. Stangel and her passenger, 17-year-old Kiersten Noel, were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver of the dump truck, Harry Johnson, 68, was treated and released at the scene.
Authorities added that neither drugs nor alcohol were suspected to be factors in the crash.
August 31, 2022
Source: KHQ