Injury crash blocks Deschutes Parkway for 4 hours Sunday morning
A 21-year-old Aberdeen man was booked into the Thurston County Jail on suspicion of vehicular assault on Sunday morning after his vehicle crashed into a van parked on Deschutes Parkway, according to the Washington State Patrol.
A woman in the van also was injured.
About 2:20 a.m. Sunday, troopers say the Aberdeen man was headed south on Deschutes Parkway, near Lakeridge Drive Southwest, at a high speed.
Troopers say the man crossed the center line and hit a tree on the northbound side of Deschutes Parkway then crashed into a van parked on the shoulder of the road.
A 42-year-old woman from Aberdeen was injured in the van and taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
The 21-year-old man also had a passenger. That man, 22, was also taken to Providence.
Deschutes Parkway was blocked for more than four hours, according to the State Patrol.
This story was originally published October 6, 2019 at 12:46 PM.
