A man was killed on Highway 9 in Snohomish Friday evening in a head-on collision with a cement truck.
The unidentified man, driving a Ford Bronco, was headed north when another car turned onto the highway from Bickford Avenue right in front of him, said Trooper Lance Ramsay with the Washington State Patrol.
To avoid hitting the car, he swerved into a lane with oncoming traffic, where a 4-ton cement truck was traveling south. The cement truck demolished the Bronco, Ramsay said.
The truck – which had a rotating cement-mixing barrel on the back – pushed the lighter SUV several hundred feet before stopping. The driver of the Bronco was thrown from the car and died instantly.
“He was wearing his seat belt, but obviously in such a tremendous crash like this … it wasn’t going to make a difference,” Ramsay said.
The driver of the cement truck was taken to the hospital as a precaution. The passenger car that contributed to the crash was not damaged in the accident, although the woman driving it stayed to be questioned by troopers.
A two-mile stretch of Highway 9 in Snohomish – from U.S. 2 to Second Street – was closed to traffic shortly after 5:30 p.m. It remained closed late Friday night while troopers continued to investigate.
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