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Two people were injured late Tuesday evening after a suspected drunken driver crashed head-on into another vehicle in Buckley. The accident happened about 10 p.m. on State Route 162. A pickup truck driven by a 25-year-old South Prairie man went off the highway near 130th Street, and the driver overcorrected. The pickup turned into the path of a car in the opposite direction. The South Prairie man and the other driver, a 55-year-old Buckley woman, were taken to the hospital. The State Patrol said alcohol likely was involved and the man could face vehicular assault charges.
The Pacific County sheriff's office says a couple who were hunting drove their truck off a logging road and it fell about 2,000 feet down a cliff into a ravine. The sheriffs office stated that the woman driving died at the scene Tuesday and a man in the passenger's seat was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with critical injuries. Another couple hunting with the pair had to drive to a location with cell phone reception to call for help.
A 43-year-old Tacoma man died in a one-car crash at southbound Interstate 705 and South 21st Street Monday night. The Washington State Patrol said speed was a factor, and that investigators confirmed that the vehicle hit curbing on the 21st Street exit, and vaulted over the barrier of the overpass back onto I-705. The man was the driver and only occupant of the 2008 Audi involved in the crash that happened about 7 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials have not yet released his name.
A 16-year-old who was driving to school was on life-support Tuesday afternoon after a multi-vehicle crash in Kent, but Kent police say he's being kept alive for now so that his organs can ultimately be donated. The crash happened before 8:30 a.m. on S. 208th Street at 120th Place SE. Both streets at the site of the accident were closed for several hours Kent police say the Kentridge High School student was driving on S. 208th Street when he was hit by another vehicle making a turn at the intersection. The collision caused the student to lose control and was he was hit by another vehicle.