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According to a press memo from the Washington State Patrol, 23-year-old Leighton J. Rowe was eastbound on I-90 in a Ford F-150 when the vehicle left the roadway, went through a barbed wire fence, struck a tree, and became fully engulfed in flames. Rowe, of Pasco, was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident, which occurred at 2:49 a.m. Monday, is under investigation.
At about 8:02 a.m., 17-year-old Michael Baunsgard was eastbound on I-90 and trying to pass a semi-truck so that he could take Exit 85, but lost control of his vehicle. His car then went off the roadway and down the off-ramp embankment, and he was injured and brought to the hospital. His passenger Hunter Davey, 17, was not hurt.
Just before 1:00 a.m., an SUV driven by Raini Kishwalk, 18, was driving south on I-84 near Ellensburg and began to drift off of the road. Kishwalk overcorrected and the vehicle departed the roadway on the other side and overturned. A passenger in the vehicle, identified as Amy J. Hunt, 24, remains in the hospital after the collision, while Kishwalk has already been treated for more minor injuries and released. It is believed that alcohol was involved in this crash, meaning Kishwalk could face vehicular assualt charges.
It was about 10:50 p.m. when Bourne was driving west on I-82, and reportedly fell asleep. Her car veered off the roadway into the median, where it continued about 700 feet, before careening back across the westbound lanes and off the road to the right, where it flipped onto its side. Bourne was taken to the hospital, though no other information is available as they had no record of her being there.
Fields was driving on I-90 on Monday morning when she departed the roadway to right, which caused the car to roll over and land upside-down. She was injured and taken to the hospital, treated, and eventually released. Intoxicants are not a suspected factor in this accident, but Fields will be cited for departing the roadway.
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