Two-vehicle collision on icy roads
Young adults escape car before it is struck by truck
Last updated 12/3/2020 at 10:31am
RITZVILLE – Three people were involved in a two-vehicle collision Nov. 25, on the icy surface of westbound I-90 eight miles east of Rtizville.
Dyllin Hoisington and Jayden Whittenberg, both 18, were traveling from their home in Newport when the collision happened, shortly before 6:30 a.m.
“We drove over some black ice and I’m pretty sure we were trying to get into the other lane,” said Whittenberg.
The car they were driving lay on it’s roof on the shoulder of the right hand lane.
“It was on it’s side first, and then the truck hit us,” said Hoisington. “But we got out before it hit.”
“Literally a couple minutes before it hit,” Whittenberg said. “We were on our way to Oregon to spend Thanksgiving with my family.”
“They were lucky to get out. The car got scrunched down on the top,” Adams County Fire Protection District No. 1 Chief Scott Kembel said.
The couple stood in a field near the interstate holding their three-year old dog, Danny, while crews from Adams County Fire District No. 1 searched for another dog, which Whittenberg said belonged to her mother.
“But we’re thinking that she’s gone,” said Hoisington.
“She’s about 10 years old,” Whittenberg said.
Clay DeBoard, 28, of Cheney, said he was driving to his job with West States Equipment Company when the collision occurred.
Washington State Patrol troopers secured the scene.
Also responding to the accident were EMTs with East Adams Rural Healthcare.
“There was stuff all over the place. All over the place,” Kembel said.
Kembel said they were called earlier that morning for a non injury collision on Highway 395 between milepost 95 and 96, but the call got cancelled.
“The Washington State Patrol beat us out there, and they cancelled us. There were no injuries and it was off the side of the road, so it wasn’t blocking anything,” Kembel said.
Kembel said a third call came shortly after the trucks returned to the station from the second call. He said the call came in around 7:30 a.m. for a collision on I-90 at milepost 229, westbound.
“It was just a quarter of a mile before those other ones. He really took a right, he went way down in the ditch,” Kembel said. “That one was a pick up with two patients. Those two got transported.”
Kembel said he had six firemen and two trucks on that call.
“We’ve been hopping this morning. We just got back to town, get our turnouts out, and we’re sitting there discussing a few things and then we got punched out again. It happened three times this morning,” Kembel said. “Luckily, we were back at the station, and these calls weren’t in each end of the district. Thank goodness, there were no fires on any of them.”
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