COLFAX, Wash – A driver making what WSP calls an “unsafe pass” hit another car head on, killing one driver and sending five people to the hospital.
The crash happened Friday evening, five miles south of Colfax. The road was blocked for several hours.
WSP says 20-year-old Makala Wheeler of Vancouver, Washington was driving south on 195 when she went to pass another vehicle. She hit a car that was heading northbound, driven by 67-year-old Sandra Hall of Colfax.
Wheeler’s car then went off the road and rolled onto its top.
Hall died at the scene.
Wheeler and four passengers in her car were injured in the crash.
Two 18-year-old passengers were airlifted to Sacred Heart, one 18-year-old passenger was taken to the hospital in Colfax and Wheeler and another 18-year-old were taken to the hospital in Pullman.
WSP says Wheeler could face charges, pending the investigation.
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