SUMNER, Wash. — Three people were hurt after their speeding car left a highway in Sumner, became airborne and then slammed into an embankment early Wednesday.
A state trooper who was parked along westbound SR 410 at about 1 a.m. saw a car traveling more than 100 mph.
As the trooper tried to catch up to the car, he saw it fail to make a turn onto northbound SR 167, where it left the road, launched an estimated 150 to 200 feet and then slammed into an embankment.
It then rolled into a gully, where it came to a rest.
The driver, a 21-year-old man, and two passengers, another 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl, had to be cut out of the mangled Toyota Camry by firefighters.
All three were transported to hospitals with serious and possibly life-threatening injuries. Their conditions are not known.
Drugs or alcohol are suspected to be factors in the crash.
A trooper said he was confident that if they hadn’t been wearing seatbelts, they wouldn’t have survived the crash.
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