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Two people were injured Wednesday morning, April 2, when two cars collided on Mount Baker Highway at Britton Road. A westbound 1994 Honda Accord was turning left onto Britton Road at about 11:05 a.m. when it was hit by an eastbound 1998 Ford Escort. The crash shoved the Honda into a North Whatcom Fire and Rescue SUV that was stopped in the turn lane on Britton. Two Honda passengers were injured. Francisca S. Rabang-Warbus, 36, was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with a broken pelvis and broken wrist. Thomas R. Warbus, 36, was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Hospital.
A helicopter airlifted a 23-year-old man to St. Joseph Hospital Tuesday afternoon when a Jeep crashed about 200 feet over an embankment near the Mt. Baker Ski Area. The driver, Taylor Armstrong, 23, over-corrected the Jeep at a left curve in the road, about a mile from the nearest lodge, while coming down from the mountain around 3:35 p.m. One of the passengers, Paul Davis,23, from Normandy Park, didn't have a seatbelt on and was thrown from the Jeep about halfway down. He was airlifted to the Bellingham hospital.
A Bellingham woman was killed and her passenger was injured in a two-car crash this morning north of Bellingham. Inna Reva, 20, died at the scene of the accident, which occurred at about 10 a.m. at the intersection of Hannegan and Van Wyck roads. Her passenger, Leonid Shintar, 42, of Bellingham, was taken to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center with injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt. The driver of the other car, a 27-year-old woman, was not injured.