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A 35-year-old Pasco man is dead following an early morning motorcycle crash on Sunday.
Troopers with Washington State Patrol said Donye Guice was going north on SR395 to eastbound Interstate 182 when he lost control on the corner. The motorcycle hit the median and Guice was ejected.
A 19-year-old man was killed in a one-car rollover Monday night in the Yelm area, and the driver was arrested in connection with his death. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reports the rollover occurred around 9 p.m. June 24 in the 15800 block of Bald Hill Road Southeast.
A car involved in a fatal crash crossed the center line, crashed off another vehicle and was hit hard enough by an oncoming truck to launch the car's engine 50 feet. The driver was identified as 22-year-old Kyle Pike of Puyallup.
The two people who died in a two-car head on collision near Maltby in Snohomish County on Monday have been identified as Redmond residents Joan S. Kinger, 76, and Stanley Kinger, 79. Authorities say Joan Kinger was pronounced dead at the scene and Stanley Kinger died later at the hospital.
A man who died in a Sunday accident in Auburn was Josh M. Colson, the co-owner of Auburn Brake and Muffler. He was in the passenger seat of a vehicle headed south on Auburn Way North, when it crashed into a power pole just after 2 a.m. This was a single-vehicle accident.
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office reports that a man was killed in a two-vehicle collision Friday in the Yelm area. Around 2:30 a.m. June 6, deputies responded to a collision on Bald Hill Road Southeast and 122nd Lane Southeast.
Vancouver Fire Capt. Gregg Roberts has died from injuries he sustained in a car crash on Friday afternoon. His car rolled off the road at about 1:30 p.m. on June 6 as Roberts was heading east on Ward Road, Fire Chief Joe Molina said. "He was the driver, and he was ejected," Molina said.
The Mason County Sheriff's Office said it appears that alcohol and possibly marijuana were factors in a crash that killed two people Sunday morning. Mason County Coroner Wes Stockwell identified the dead as David Michael Dudley Jr., 19, of Bremerton, and Alena J. Pepi, 18, of Port Orchard.
A Vancouver woman died Sunday afternoon in a Washougal crash that's being investigated as a possible vehicular homicide. The crash happened around 1 p.m. Sunday. Shauna Medlin, 41, was a passenger in a 2007 Dodge pickup driven by James Benton, 66, of Washougal.
