2 die when car goes over embankment in west Olympia

Update: West Bay Drive Northwest was open to traffic as of 4 p.m., according to 911 dispatchers.

Police in Olympia say two people died when their car went over an embankment Monday along West Bay Drive Northwest.

The single-car crash was reported shortly after noon. Police say a man and a woman, both in their 70s, were in the car when it left West Bay Drive, went through a fence and down a 10-foot embankment on the east side of the road.

This happened on the 1400 block of West Bay Drive near the former Reliable Steel site, north of West Bay Park.

About three blocks of West Bay Drive were closed for most of the afternoon while police investigated.

This story was originally published November 4, 2019 at 12:44 PM.