Four-car wreck injures three, including local schools chief

Updated with photo and more details

 

Last updated 1/31/2018 at 2:59pm

Paul Turner

The front of Burton "Paul" Turner's car was demolished, as shown in this photo he took with his phone after crawling out the passenger side. The Jeep that struck his car is overturned behind it. The yellow mark on the pavement is from an investigation of an earlier crash at the same scene, Turner noted.

A four-car crash blocked the intersection of two highways at Soap Lake Tuesday, injuring three people, including a Grand Coulee man.

The Washington State Patrol said the collision occurred at 10:13 a.m. when a Twisp driver headed south in a 2014 Jeep Wrangler ran a stop sign where SR-17 meets SR-28.

The Jeep, driven by Amy Days, 39, struck the passenger side of a 2010 Honda Element driven by 79-year-old Colleen Martin, of Wilson Creek, who was driving west through the intersection.

The Jeep then hit two other eastbound vehicles waiting in the left turn lane to turn left onto highway 17 and landed on its top.

Burton "Paul" Turner, 58, of Grand Coulee, was driving one of those, a 2014 Ford Focus. Shane Hobson, 39, of Quincy, drove the other, a 2013 Chevrolet Express G25 van.

Hobson was not injured, but Turner was taken to Samaritan Hospital, the state patrol reported. Martin was taken to Columbia Basin Hospital, as was Days, who was charged with failure to yield, the patrol report states.

Turner, the superintendent of the Grand Coulee Dam School District, told The Star on Wednesday that his trip to the hospital was "precautionary" and that he is OK, except for a sore neck. He said the airbags in his car deployed in an instant as designed.

"I can't say enough good things about that little Ford Focus," he said.

 

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