Two separate accidents along U.S. 2 on Sunday left seven people injured and four vehicles totaled, the State Patrol reported.
James Grinde, 32, of Everett, was treated and released from Valley General Hospital in Monroe after his car crashed into an oncoming vehicle when he swerved to avoid slowing traffic on westbound U.S. 2 near Skykomish at 1:31 p.m. His 1998 Ford pickup was totaled.
His car hit a 2000 Chevrolet driven by Abraham King, 27, of Gold Bar, who was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center, where he was in stable condition Sunday night. Two of King’s passengers, 30-year-old Melissa Sharp of Monroe and a 6-year-old boy from Sultan, were treated and released from Valley General. A 12-year-old boy from Monroe was also airlifted to Harborview, but no information was available about his condition.
A few hours after the first accident, a 1977 Ford pickup was totaled when it hit a deer going eastbound near Gold Bar, swerved over the center line and struck an oncoming 1987 Jeep. The Ford’s driver, 42-year-old Allen King of Index, wasn’t injured. The Jeep’s driver, 48-year-old Catherine Fox of Seattle, was treated and released from Valley General. Her passenger, Douglas David, 58, of Everett, was airlifted to Harborview and was in stable condition Sunday night.
Mount Vernon
Accident on Skagit River Bridge: Three were injured in a four-car accident on I-5’s Skagit River Bridge late Saturday morning.
A 13-year-old Everett boy was treated and released from Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, along with the driver he was riding with, Nicholas Schmelzer, 18, of Sedro-Woolley, and a Marysville woman in another car, 56-year-old Ardys Scheller.
Erin Hanson, 30, of Mount Vernon, was stopping for traffic at 11:50 a.m. when her 2001 Honda was struck on the passenger’s side by a 1998 Pontiac driven by 59-year-old William Scheller of Marysville, the State Patrol reported.
Schmelzer’s 1986 Mitsubishi Mirage then rear-ended Scheller’s car. And a 1979 Ford driven by Lonnie Rayment, 48, of Sedro-Woolley, then struck Hanson’s Honda on the driver’s side.
The Pontiac and Honda were both totaled. The Mirage was impounded with $3,000 damage, and the Ford was driven away with $100 damage.
From Herald staff reports
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