Wrong-way driver killed in crash with U.S. Postal truck

Published 1:30 am Monday, February 18, 2019

Associated Press

REDMOND — A wrong-way driver was killed after crashing into a U.S. Postal Service truck on state Highway 520 in Redmond.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Washington State Patrol troopers were first alerted to the wrong-way driver when they were heading east in the westbound lanes of 520 near I-405.

Just before 4 a.m. Monday, a 911 call was made to report the crash with the USPS truck near West Lake Sammamish Parkway.

Trooper Rick Johnson said the wrong-way driver, in a Subaru hatchback, was killed in the crash and pronounced dead at the scene.

The USPS truck driver suffered non-life threatening injuries.