Speeding driver causes three-vehicle crash

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Speeding driver causes three-vehicle crash

August 8th, 2009 | Add a Comment

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By Sgt. Dave Reagan

A driver speeding into a shallow right curve Friday caused a three-vehicle crash that closed Magnesium Road for hours and left two drivers in extremely critical condition at a Spokane hospital.

Witnesses told sheriff’s traffic collision investigators said that a 1998 Plymouth Voyager mini-van was eastbound on Magnesium at speed above the posted 35 mph limit as it was passing other eastbound cars.

The roadway curves slightly to the right as it approaches Market. The van’s 29-year-old male driver was unable to keep it in its eastbound lane, crossed the centerline and struck a westbound full-size Ford pickup head-on.

The Ford was being driven by a 57-year-old Mead, Washington woman who was hauling a load of household goods for a neighbor moving to a new address on North Nevada

The neighbor, a 24-year-old Mead resident, was following the Ford in a 1992 Acura Vigora with her 60-year-old mother as passenger.

The crash totaled both the Ford pickup and Plymouth Voyager, and the momentum pushed them backward into the Acura. Both women in the Acura were wearing seatbelts and neither was injured.

Both the driver of the Ford and Plymouth suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash, and the van’s driver had to be cut from the crumpled vehicle by firefighters. Both were taken to a downtown hospital where they were listed in extremely critical condition at 7 p.m.

All three vehicles were towed to the sheriff’s garage to be processed as evidence. Speed was clearly a factor in the collision and there was no immediate evidence that drugs or alcohol played a role.

The crash remains under investigation.

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