COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho—Three Washington State University students were killed and two other people were seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho State police said Saturday.
Tyler Pearson, 21, of Kennewick, Wash., died Saturday morning in a Coeur d’Alene hospital, where he had been taken Friday from the crash that killed two passengers in the Isuzu Rodeo he was driving on U.S. 95 south of Coeur d’Alene, police said.
Benjamin Lockard, 20, of Kennewick, Wash., and Ann Barney, 19, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., died instantly.
Another passenger, 19-year-old Brooke Smith of Kennewick, was in critical condition Saturday at Kootenai Medical Center.
Pearson was northbound about 7:15 p.m. Friday when his vehicle crossed into the southbound lane and was struck broadside by a Chevrolet Suburban driven by Lea Barnes, 35, of Lakewood, Wash., police said. She was hospitalized in fair condition.
Police said those in Pearson’s car were headed for snowboarding at Schweitzer Mountain near Sandpoint.
Slick roads and speed too fast for conditions were likely factors in the crash, police said.
