Woman killed after car hit by truck at 33rd & Marine View Drive | Transportation

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A Lake Stevens woman was killed late Friday in the last of three crashes in Marysville and the Tulalip reservation caused by a suspected drunk driver.

Lt. Jeff Goldman with Marysville Police said the final, fatal crash happened at the intersection of Marine View Drive and 33rd Avenue NE, just west of Interstate 5 and inside the Tulalip Indian Reservation. That’s where a Dodge truck crashed into a sedan, killing the car’s driver.

The truck was first reported to police around 11:15 p.m., when Marysville officers went to check out a suspected drunk driver in a Dodge truck on Grove Street, just west of State Avenue. The truck was reportedly weaving from lane to lane on Grove, and at one point was spotted going east in Grove’s westbound lane.

One officer spotted the truck going south on Cedar Avenue. When the truck drifted into the northbound lane, the officer turned on his lights and tried to stop the truck.

But the truck kept going, turning right onto 4th Street. Goldman said the truck then went over the concrete divider on 4th, hit a car and kept going west in the eastbound lanes of 4th, with police behind him. The truck then hit a second car just west of I-5. That car was also traveling in the eastbound lanes of 4th. But the truck kept going west, as the street turned from 4th Street to Marine View Drive.

Moments later, the track hit a third car, just east of 33rd Avenue NE and on the Tulalip reservation. The impact sent both vehicles off of the street, with the truck ending up on its passenger side. Goldman said officers were able to get the truck’s driver out before it caught fire.

But when they got to the car, the driver was unconscious. CPR was started on her, but those efforts failed. The woman, a 26-year-old from Lake Stevens, died at the scene. The drivers of the other two cars that were hit were not injured.

The driver of the truck, a 45-year-old Arlington man, was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries for a blood sample. He was then taken to the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, where he was booked on vehicular homicide, hit and run and eluding a police officer.

The streets around the crash scene were closed into Saturday morning as the investigation into the crashes took place.