Crash victim to be remembered Saturday

Family and friends of crash victim Mike Brooks are holding an event at Crystal Mountain Ski Resort on Saturday.

They want to remember the 53-year-old husband and father of two who was killed on his way to work at the Microsoft campus last June.

The event will raise money for Outdoors for All, a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities get outdoors, and there will be a silent auction to raise college funds for his two young children, who are 8 and 10.

"Mike was a true friend, " said friend Jon Pretty, who is helping to organize the event. "The kind of friend who would literally give you the shirt off his back, the kind of friend who shows up to help you when you're moving, the kind of friend that everyone wants to have."

Brooks lived in Maple Valley. He worked at Crystal Mountain Ski Resort for years.  Last June he was driving to work on the Microsoft campus, where he ran a Microsoft corporate dining facility.  Investigators say another driver crossed the center line on Issaquah-Hobart Road and crashed head-on into Brooks, killing him.

The other driver, 27, was not charged with a crime because investigators determined he had suffered a diabetic episode.

The driver, who also had his baby in a car seat in the car,  had recently been put on an insulin pump.  Prosecutors decided not to file charges because the investigation determined he had never been warned about the danger of driving after using his insulin pump. The driver did lose his license

The public is invited to the event at Crystal Mountain Ski Resort on Saturday and can purchase tickets here.

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