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The family of a taxi driver killed in a hit-and-run on a local freeway mourns his loss, as investigators work to determine what happened. The California Highway Patrol reported that cab driver, identified by family 42-year-old Anteneh Minassie, was on Interstate 5 heading south between Old Town Avenue and Washington Street when a wrong-way driver came toward him heading north just before 2:30 a.m. Minassie was thrown from his car, but CHP reported he died when he was run over on the interstate by multiple vehicles.
A Lake Stevens woman was booked into the King County Jail early Sunday after a wrong-way crash on I-5. It happened just before 12:30 a.m. on northbound I-5 at Northeast 145th Street. The Washington State Patrol stated that the 22-year-old driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes and hit a Ford Edge. One of the three people in the Edge was injured and taken to Harborview Medical Center. The driver of the F-150 and her passenger, a 24-year-old Mukilteo woman, were not hurt.