MARYSVILLE – A pregnant woman was seriously hurt in a car crash Tuesday and another woman was arrested for investigation of vehicular assault.
The pregnant woman, 24, was a passenger in a Saturn sedan that reportedly crossed the center line on Highway 9 and clipped a pickup truck. The car continued across the highway and slammed into a tree, Washington State Patrol trooper Kirk Rudeen said.
The passenger was trapped inside the car. Firefighters used the jaws of life to remove her from the car, said Fire Chief Travis Hots with District 22 in Getchell.
The woman was taken by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with a serious leg injury. The driver, 24, was taken to an Everett hospital. Her injuries didn’t appear to be life-threatening, Rudeen said.
Troopers arrested her after they found drug paraphernalia in the car, Rudeen said.
The daughter and son-in-law of a family who died in a crossover crash on I-5 after a truck broke through a cable barrier have filed a claim against the state.
Tyler and Fawn Ringen on Monday filed a $10 million claim on behalf of Fawn Ringen’s parents, Darrell and Sandra Knapp, and her young brother Noah, according to a statement issued by Ringen’s attorney on Tuesday.
The Knapps died May 30, 2005, after a pickup truck pulling a fifth-wheel trailer crossed the median and plowed through the cable barrier and into oncoming traffic.
The freeway was unsafe because the cable barrier was not proper designed, placed or maintained, the statement claims.
In 2005, an analysis by The Herald showed that in a three-mile stretch near Marysville, the barriers failed to stop vehicles in the median 20 percent of the time.
Several months later, state transportation officials announced that the ditch in the median and the barrier’s placement there failed to prevent small cars from slipping under the cables and into oncoming traffic.
Transportation officials spent about $2.4 million to install a second set of cable barriers, level out the ditch and move the old fence.
Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered an independent review of the cable barriers in Marysville after another fatal crossover crash in February.
From Herald staff reports
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