Details Emerge About Shocking Fatal Wrong-Way I-182 Crash
WSP Investigators are trying to figure out how an 82-year-old woman got into the wrong lanes on I-182 Monday afternoon around 2:40PM. This image from WSP Trooper Thorson on Twitter. He ovesees the Mid Columbia Region for the State Patrol.
Sadly, Edwina Steward of Richland, died when she collided head on with a car driven by 16-year-old Kylie Cushing, who was then rushed to an area hospital Troopers said her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
Troopers and investigators did not say where Steward began driving
west in the east bound lanes, but she did somewhere before the I-182 bridge over the Columbia to Richland.
One Killed in I-182 Head-On Crash, Wrong-way Driver to Blame UPDATE 8:38 PM
Washington State Patrol has confirmed Richland resident 82-year old Edwina Steward was driving the wrong way on Interstate 182 when her vehicle crashed head-on into another driven by a 16-year old girl. The crash happened at 2:40 pm, resulting in a chain reaction of collisions. There were 6 vehicles involved, and all were wearing seatbelts.
Washington State Patrol is continuing to investigate a deadly multi-vehicle collision that took place in Pasco on Monday.
One person is deceased and one was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries in several collisions that occurred just after 2:45 pm. WSP reports numerous calls were made to 911 that a wrong-way driver was traveling westbound the eastbound lanes of Interstate 182 near Road 100.
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