PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles police say a 65-year-old woman was found dead, trapped between her van and a drive-through ATM at a US Bank branch.
Detective Jesse Winfield said Janice Tucker was found about 10:20 a.m. Saturday partially outside the van she was driving. The van struck the automatic teller machine at a low speed.
Winfield told the Peninsula Daily News that Tucker died of injuries from the wreck, but he said he does not know how it happened. Police do not know if any other people or vehicles were involved.
A bank customer found Tucker, and the bank staff called 911. Police plan to review the ATM lane’s surveillance tape.
Tucker lived near Port Angeles.
Seattle: 520 bridge maintenance delayed
The Washington Transportation Department has postponed its maintenance work on the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge that was scheduled for early today because of the cold weather.
Bridge crews decided road conditions would likely be too icy, so the bridge will be open to drivers throughout the night.
The department said the work will be rescheduled.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no:State trooper injured in I-5 traffic accident
The Washington State Patrol said three people, including a trooper, were injured when a car hit a parked patrol car on I-5 early Sunday near Seattle as a light snow was falling.
The State Patrol told KOMO-TV that the driver of a suspected speeding car, an 18-year-old Tacoma man, faces vehicular assault charges after he is released from a hospital.
Troopers cited speeding and a driver possibly under the influence as factors in the crash, which happened about 1:30 a.m. on southbound I-5.
When the crash occurred, the trooper’s car had pulled off onto the highway’s left shoulder, with its emergency lights flashing, behind another vehicle while the trooper helped the driver of another car that had slid onto the shoulder into the guardrail.
Taken to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center were the 38-year-old trooper, the Tacoma man and his 18-year-old male passenger. Their conditions were not available.
Yakima: 1 man dead in morning house fire
Yakima fire investigators are trying determine the cause of an early-morning house blaze Saturday that took the life of a man in his mid-50s.
Yakima Fire Department Battalion Chief Mitch Cole told the Yakima Herald-Republic that two other occupants of the house were taken to a hospital, where they were treated and released.
A neighbor told firefighters that there were explosives inside the house and Cole said that kept them from being able to get in the house and “aggressively” fight the fire. Cole said the neighbor explained one of the occupants had the explosives because he used to work for a railroad.
Firefighters called the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit from the Yakima Training Center to look for the explosives and that unit determined the explosives were underwater and not a hazard.
Associated Press
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