LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Three high school students are dead after an SUV drove under a parked semi-trailer near Lynnwood.
Everett Public Schools released a letter on Wednesday from Jackson High School principal Dave Peters that read, "This morning we learned three of our Jackson High students were involved in a fatal car accident. A Cascade High School student was also in the accident and is in stable condition in the hospital. We are all incredibly shocked and saddened by this event."
The survivor, a 15-year-old girl, attends Cascade High School. She is listed in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center. She was not the driver.
The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the identifications and completed the examinations on the three teens who were killed in the crash: 16-year-old Landon M. Staley of Everett, 16-year-old Travin K. Nelson-Phongphiou of Everett, and 15-year-old Mikayla Sorenson of Bothell,
They died of multiple blunt force injuries from an accident, according to the medical examiner.
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The crash happened around 4:00 a.m. Wednesday on Alderwood Mall Parkway when Snohomish County investigators say a Kia Sorrento, traveling north, left the lane and slammed into the front of the trailer parked beside the road, alone without a truck.
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The SUV went so far beneath the trailer, the top sheared off.
Snohomish County investigators say they don't know what led to the crash, but, according to spokeswoman Shari Ireton, "that's the assumption that speed was a factor."
According to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, it is legal for trucks to park trailers in the designated parking areas along Alderwood Mall Parkway. However, the trailer was not parked in the correct direction, as the front of the trailer was facing the direction of travel by oncoming traffic. That is a civil parking infraction.
Principal Dave Peters says their Crisis Response Team is working on a plan to help students and families with the loss.
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