Whitefish woman killed in wrong-way crash

A Whitefish woman is dead after a wrong-way crash Thursday morning on a highway outside of Seattle.

Washington State Patrol says Nancy L. Clark, 60, died at the scene after colliding with two cars heading the opposite direction on State Route 18 in Auburn, Wash.

Patrol reports say Clark was driving a 1997 Honda Civic east in the westbound lanes at about 12:30 a.m. She hit a car and kept going until she hit a second car, a 2011 Toyota Avalon.

That driver, a 54-year-old Federal Way, Wash., man, was injured and taken to St. Francis Hospital.

Craig Anderson, a witness on the scene, said he first checked on the man who got hit and saw that he was alive. He was on the phone with a 911 operator as he checked the other car.

“Dispatch was trying to find out if anyone inside the vehicle was alive, so I ended up shattering the two driver side windows — checked for a pulse. I didn’t feel a pulse,” he said. “And so I told everyone else around to just kind of back away and not take pictures.”

Alcohol or drugs are not believed to be a factor in the accident.

— The Associated Press contributed to the article