DUPONT — A Washington State Patrol spokeswoman says two children seriously injured when the SUV in which they were riding was hit and overturned on Interstate 5 “are going to be OK.”
Trooper Brandy Kessler says the two were in a Ford Expedition that rolled over a concrete barrier after the SUV was hit by a Honda Civic near DuPont. The Civic driver was arrested.
The State Patrol on Wednesday updated some information originally released on Tuesday’s accident. Kessler now says there were 10 people in the SUV and they included two women and eight children.
The patrol initially said no one in the SUV had been restrained. Since then, Kessler says the 31-year-old female driver and a 13-year-old boy have told authorities they were wearing seat belts.
The two seriously injured children and the second woman were thrown from the vehicle. The two women and the other children were not seriously hurt.
The accident caused lengthy backups on I-5.
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