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ELLENSBURG, Wash. - A 25-year-old Woodinville man was seriously injured after the truck he was in rolled off a cliff near Ellensburg Saturday afternoon.
Authorities believe alcohol was a factor in the accident, which took place on a rock slide outside the Manastash Campground in Shoestring Ridge.
The passenger, Mark Olliver, remained in serious condition at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center late this morning, hospital officials said.
Authorities have yet to identify the driver, who they say boasted that he could go down the steep rock slide and then climb back up, according to the news release from Kittitas County Sheriff's Office.
Right after starting down, the front end of the truck caught a rock, wheeling it some 400 feet down the cliff before it came to rest on its side. A Snohomish County Sheriff's Office rescue helicopter airlifted Olliver to Harborview.
The case remains under investigation.
The Kittitas County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Unit, Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue, Department of Emergency Management and U.S. Forest Service also assisted.
- Melissa Sánchez
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