SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The Washington State Patrol says three people were killed and two injured in a collision on Highway 20 near Sedro-Wooley.
Trooper Mark Francis tells the Skagit Valley Herald there were four people in one car. A 23-year-old Sedro-Woolley woman, Nicole A. Washington, and a 21-year-old Bellingham woman died at the scene. A 19-year-old Mount Vernon man and another man were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
One person in the other car, Frederick A. Brand of Concrete, 65, died on the way to a Sedro-Woolley hospital.
Francis says speed and possibly alcohol were factors in the crash at 5:10 a.m. Friday.
The Transportation Department detoured traffic to South Skagit Highway until Highway 20 reopened at 10:45 a.m.
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