Pickup driver faces charges after a Lewis County teen was killed in a Monday wreck
State Troopers say a Clark County man faces charges of vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault after 16-year-old girl from Lewis County was killed and four others were injured in a two-car crash in southwest Washington on Monday.
The young woman who died was from Napavine; she was a passenger and died at the scene. All the others in the wreck are from Clark County.
About 1:30 p.m. Monday, the Napavine teen, along with a 15-year-old female driver, a woman in her 60s, and another 15-year-old girl, were headed south on state Route 503 in Clark County in a 2015 Mazda 3, according to State Patrol.
Meanwhile, a 46-year-old Clark County man was headed north on the same road in a 2011 Ford F150.
Troopers say the man, who is thought to have been driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, crossed the center line and crashed head-on into the Mazda.
He was injured, as were the two teenage girls and the woman in the Maxda. All four were taken to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington.
This story was originally published June 15, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
