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At about 4:44 p.m., 6-year-old Uziel Salomon Barrera Alejandri was playing with three other children who all ran across Fourth avenue. A pickup truck driven by Dominique Mariscal, 23, that was traveling on the road was unable to avoid Alejandri and struck the boy. He was declared dead at the scene. Investigation continues, but so far it does not appear that Mariscal was speeding or negligent.
A press memo from the Washington State Patrol says a white 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer driven by 25-year-old Matthew J. Mirelez was eastbound on Van Belle Road approaching Brien Lane when Mirelez swerved to miss a dog in the roadway. The driver then overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll. Mirelez and a 3-year-old girl who was in the back seat were transported to Sunnyside Community Hospital. A front seat passenger, Melany R. Mirelez, 30, died from injuries sustained in the crash, which happened at 9:48 p.m. Saturday about two miles east of Granger.
It was about 1:15am when Huntley-Fife was driving her a pickup truck containing five other passengers south on North Wenas Road, when she failed to negotiate a curve to the left and departed the roadway on the right side, causing the truck to roll. An unidentified 15-year-old boy that was in the bed of the truck with no seat belt was ejected from the vehicle, and remains in the hospital. Huntley-Fife and all of the other passengers, which include Ryan Jahr-Gibson, 19, Nathan Janshen, 18, Jose Saavedra, 20, and one unidentified 16-year-old, were also brought to the hospital.