A 49-year-old Pasco man is facing drunken driving charges after colliding with a semi-truck Wednesday night near Burbank.
Angel O. Quezada was driving a 1999 Oldsmobile Intrepid west on Highway 12 when he lost control and slid broadside in front of a truck that also was driving west.
The accident happened at 5:35 p.m. near Highway 124 about a mile east of Pasco, said the Washington State Patrol.
Truck driver George P. Hogue, 48, of White Swan, was not hurt.
Quezada was taken to Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco and no longer was there Thursday afternoon.
And his passenger Mariano Lopez Mendez, 50, of Pasco, was not hurt. All were wearing seat belts.
Troopers said alcohol and excessive speed were to blame in the crash.
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A Pasco woman escaped serious injury after she crashed her car into a semi-truck on Highway 395 in Pasco.
The crash happened just before noon Thursday at the Kartchner Street exit.
Washington State Patrol troopers said Marcelina Mora, 53, was driving south on the highway when she went into the median, overcorrected back onto the highway and hit the middle of the semi-truck.
2 Othello women injured in crash
2 Othello women injured in crash
Unsafe passing is to blame for an early morning Wednesday crash about six miles north of Pasco that sent two Othello women to the hospital, the Washington State Patrol reported.
Rosa I. Mendoza, 20, of Othello, was driving a 2003 Honda Accord south on Highway 295 behind a slow-moving semi-truck about 6:44 a.m., the state patrol said.
Another semi-truck, driven by Delores Gutierrez Lopez, 47, of Dinuba, Calif., was turning south onto Highway 395 from Phend Road when Mendoza pulled out from behind the slow-moving truck and attempted to pass it. She struck Gutierrez Lopez's 1997 Mack truck, the state patrol said.
Franklin County teens injured after car rolls
Franklin County teens injured after car rolls
Two Franklin County teens were hurt Saturday when their car rolled down an embankment after trying to pass a semi-truck on the highway near Connell, the Washington State Patrol said.
Victor M. Romero, 16, of Pasco, and Isidro Sanchez Martinez, 16, of Connell, were both treated at Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco.
Romero was driving a 1991 Honda Accord southbound on Highway 17 when he tried to pass the semi and lost control of his car, troopers said.
Traffic laws
Traffic laws
Regarding the article in the Nov. 13 Herald about winter driving, headlined, "Remember headlights when driving in fog."
State laws require drivers to turn on their headlights when weather conditions reduce visibility to less than 1,000 feet, as stated by a Pasco traffic officer.
I am a driver for a local company and see this law broken constantly during adverse conditions by city, state, government and privately owned vehicles. I drive with my headlights on, on my work truck every day, all weather conditions, to let other drivers see me.
Letter Best: Going postal
Letter Best: Going postal
Another great bureaucratic savings is on our way. The new proposed post office restructure will eliminate two jobs in Pasco and uproot 80 employees and their families to Spokane from Yakima, Benton and Franklin counties. The local mail will be delayed two to three days and all that mail will be sent to Spokane and back to us for an annual savings of $1.70 per citizen of these counties.
Gee, that is half the cost of a drive through espresso on the way to work, or almost two items at the dollar store.
Maybe the post office can issue a new stamp for "C02 emission saving" for not trucking all this mail back and forth to Spokane and scrapping this ridiculous plan.
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