December 18, 2009 in City

Three people die in head-on crash on highway ramp

Driver was going wrong way, WSP says

Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review

Three people were killed early Thursday when a vehicle driving the wrong way on the eastbound on-ramp of U.S. Highway 2 onto Interstate 90 collided with another car.

The ramp was closed for at least three hours after the 2:11 a.m. accident, the Washington State Patrol said.

Dead at the scene were Sterling N. Kruger, 22, of Davenport, Wash.; James Roscoe Bolton, 61, of Spokane Valley; and Trina Louise Erickson, 47, of Spokane Valley, troopers said.

Kruger was driving to the west in the eastbound lanes of I-90 in a 1996 Honda Accord when he entered the Highway 2 on-ramp …

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