2 die after driver loses control of SUV

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Associated Press

TACOMA — Two people are dead after a driver lost control of an SUV and went off a cliff inear DuPont

The Tacoma News Tribune reported Tuesday that a male driver and a female passenger died in the accident.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department says the crash about 18 miles south of Tacoma occurred around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when the 2014 BMV SUV went over the cliff and struck a tree.

Police say there were no skid marks or other indications the driver slowed before veering off the road.

Authorities have not identified the victims, but say that at 3 p.m. emergency workers were still trying to extricate the man and woman from the wreckage several hundred feet below the road.