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Woman airlifted to Harborview after serious ATV accident in Thurston County

A woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Thursday after being pinned under an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) in Thurston County.

Southeast Thurston Fire Authority Chief Mark King told The Olympian on June 12 that units were dispatched at 4:42 p.m. on Thursday to a serious ATV accident on Penn Lane Southeast near Yelm.

He said a woman had been pinned underneath an ATV for an unknown amount of time. He said she was treated at the scene and then flown to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

King was not immediately able to provide more information regarding the accident or the woman’s condition.

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
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