RSSTwo men injured in collision with semi on I-82
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ELLENSBURG — Authorities say a semi-truck driver caused a crash when he ran a car off Interstate 82 early this afternoon.
Two people — including a Yakima resident — were injured in the accident, which happened at 12:40 p.m. about six miles south of Ellensburg, according to a news release by Washington State Patrol.
The truck’s driver, 58-year-old William Russell Penny of Lacey, Wash., was in the right lane of southbound I-82 when he moved into the left lane to pass a slower vehicle, authorities say. That forced a four-door Mitsubishi Lancer in the left lane onto the shoulder, where it then struck a guardrail before re-entering the road and hitting the semi’s trailer, according to State Patrol.
Authorities do not believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.
The Lancer’s driver, 22-year-old Fernando Valenzuela, of Redmond, Wash., was taken to Kittitas Valley Community Hospital with a head contusion and sore chest. His passenger, 29-year-old Israel Gonzales Santos of Yakima, was also hospitalized with a neck injury.
Their conditions were not immediately known this afternoon.
State troopers cited Penny for an unsafe lane change.
— Melissa Sánchez
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