Friends mourn 2 killed in Lynnwood crash
Published 8:03 pm Wednesday, November 18, 2009
LYNNWOOD
Brandon Norton was the designated driver Friday night, Nov. 13.
The Meadowdale High School graduate, 21, had already taken a car full of people home from a party he attended and was driving three of his other friends.
They were northbound on North Road in unincorporated Snohomish County just past 2 a.m. on Saturday when the car went off the road and smashed into a tree.
He died instantly. So did Ehlo Blacknall, 20, who sat behind Norton.
Tyler Gilbert, 20, and Trevor Moore, 21, were rushed to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Gilbert was allowed to go home Sunday evening. Moore was in serious condition.
Detectives from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Collision Investigation Unit on Saturday determined the car was traveling at 70 to 80 mph when it left the road. The speed limit in the area is 35 mph. The turn is posted at 25 mph.
A memorial of flowers and candles surrounding a cross marked the place of the crash on Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday, the sheriff’s office said in a press release that it is investigating whether alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.
Temperatures dipped below freezing that night, and there could have been ice on area roads, according to the National Weather Service.
Katya Yefimova writes for the Herald of Everett.
