A Bonney Lake man died on Dec. 11 as a result of a semi-truck reportedly crashing into a vehicle on northbound State Route 167.
According to the Washington State Patrol (WSP), at 7:14 a.m. Dec. 11 on SR 167, just south of SR 18 in Auburn, a 25-year-old man from Elk Grove, California, who was driving a semi, reportedly crashed into Robert Pearson, 29, of Bonney Lake. According to the memo, Pearson died as a result of the crash.
“A pump-type truck and a car behind it were stopped for traffic, and a semi struck the car and pushed it into the pump truck, killing the driver of the car,” WSP Trooper Rick Johnson said. “The causing driver was arrested for vehicular homicide under the disregard for the safety of others prong of that law.”…