Authorities identified 20-year-old Yohana M Ayele, from Edmonds, as the woman who lost her life following a rear-end collision Saturday morning on Interstate 5
The fatal car crash took place at 6:38 a.m. near the 220th Street Southwest exit in Mountlake Terrace. According to the investigation reports, the woman was driving her Nissan Sedan northbound on Interstate 5 when she drifted to avoid a mattress in the roadway which had fallen off a truck shortly before.
Her car hit the mattress and then veered in front of a semi-truck, driven by a 33-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man. The semi crashed into the Nissan on the driver’s side door, and both vehicles ended up in the freeway’s grass median. Ayele succumbed to her injuries at the scene.
Officers are looking for a pickup truck that lost the mattress just before the accident. The vehicle is described as a small, older, dark-colored pickup with wood-sided bed racks carrying miscellaneous household items. No other details are immediately available.
The incident remains under active review.
March 14, 2022
Source: My Edmonds News
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