A husband and wife are dead after a crash on State Route 9 near Marysville involving two vehicles, State Patrol troopers said.
They're investigating why Calvin Marlor, 62, from Lake Stevens, crossed the center line in his Ford Explorer pickup and struck a Saturn SL2 head-on shortly after noon on Friday.
On Friday evening, troopers released the names of the two people killed: Adam D. Huzar, 42 and Agnieszka Huzar, 38 of Marysville.
"A horrible loss, they were just at the beginning of their life--kids and family ahead of 'em," said Del, a neighbor of the Huzar's.
She told KIRO 7 the couple is from Poland, and they have family in New Jersey that she tried to reach all day.
Del also said Adam Huzar worked overnights at Boeing.
And KIRO 7 has learned that the driver of the truck that killed Huzar and his wife was Calvin Marlor, of Lake Stevens.
A photo of Marlor, from 2011, lists him as 787 Deputy Fleet Chief of Boeing Commercial Airlines.
Marlor's wife, Billie, was in the passenger seat of the Explorer.
Officials at Providence Hospital told KIRO 7 Calvin Marlor was in satisfactory condition and Billie Marlor was in critical condition.
State troopers said it appears Marlor lost control as he approached a bridge over the Centennial Trail, a recreation path.
A witness following him told investigators Marlor's pickup scraped the right guardrail along the entire bridge before crossing the center line and striking the Saturn.
Because there's no shoulder on the bridge, troopers say Adam Huzar, driving the Saturn, had nowhere to go.
"There's not a lot of wiggle room to avoid a collision," Trooper Mark Francis said.
At first, troopers thought Marlor might have had a medical condition that led to the crash, but they later said that did not appear to be the case.
Investigators found no sign of impairment, and said Marlor told them he doesn't know why he swerved.
Troopers say snow was falling at the time of the crash, but not sticking.
They did not consider the wet roadway to be a significant factor in the crash.
Friends of the Huzars sent KIRO 7 this statement:
The loss of Adam and Agnes Huzar has heavily impacted their friends. We remember them as amazingly genuine, generous, happy people. Adam was a proud Polish man and NewJersyan, passionate about Manchester United and New Jersey Devils, everything Poland but his biggest love and passion was his beautiful wife Agnes. She was one of the sweetest women we'd ever met. Adam and Agnes will never be forgotten and they are already deeply missed.