Associated Press
REDMOND — A wrong-way driver was killed after crashing into a U.S. Postal Service truck on state Highway 520 in Redmond.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Washington State Patrol troopers were first alerted to the wrong-way driver when they were heading east in the westbound lanes of 520 near I-405.
Just before 4 a.m. Monday, a 911 call was made to report the crash with the USPS truck near West Lake Sammamish Parkway.
Trooper Rick Johnson said the wrong-way driver, in a Subaru hatchback, was killed in the crash and pronounced dead at the scene.
The USPS truck driver suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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