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A 50-year-old man is in critical condition at a Spokane hospital after his car hit a wall under an overpass in Spokane Valley on Sunday night. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies suspect the man had been drinking. Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the collision on Argonne Road just south of Trent Avenue. Witnesses said the man was driving south when his car jumped the center median and hit the wall underneath the train overpass on the east side of the road. The man was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown partially out of the front windshield.
Two people were injured Tuesday morning when a dump truck and minivan collided off state Route 18 and rolled into a ditch. The incident, which occurred at 6:20 a.m., caused hours of back-ups in the Issaquah area while the scene was cleaned up. Neither driver involved was wearing a seat belt. The truck, driven by a 23-year-old woman from Wasilla, Alaska, was traveling west on state Route 18 exiting to Issaquah Hobard Road. The minivan, driven by a 26-year-old Pacific man, was traveling west on Issaquah Hobard Road approaching the highway.
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.