Herald staff
CLE ELUM — A longtime Boeing employee was killed on his way to work Monday afternoon when his car skidded and rolled over west of Cle Elum.
Dan Arnett, a manager in Boeing’s exterior decorative paint hangars who had worked in Everett for decades, died after being airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Arnett commuted from the east side of the Cascades every day, he was so attached to his acreage and his horses, said retired Boeing employee Des Evans. He worked with Arnett for more than 20 years.
"I used to worry about him driving all that distance," Evans said. "He’s really going to be missed because he was so well-liked by everybody."
Arnett was driving westbound on I-90 when his blue Ford Escort veered from the highway in rainy weather about 3 p.m. It hit the guardrail and rolled over onto its top, according to state troopers.
Arnett was the only person in the car. Speed and the weather were factors in the accident, a dispatcher said.
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