Crash Kills 4 From Everett Area -- Officials Probe Puzzling Accident On Rural Road South Of Olympia

Four young Snohomish County residents died this weekend in what State Patrol officials described as a horrifying and puzzling traffic accident south of Olympia.

Two accidents on Snohomish County roads also took the lives of a 31-year-old Gold Bar man and a 38-year-old man from Camano Island.

State Patrol officials in Vancouver identified the four Snohomish County residents who died as Mayumi A. Paull, 18, and Jennifer Lincoln-Olive, 18, both of Everett, and brothers Lorenzo Bruce, 23, of Mill Creek, and Lawrence Bruce, 20, of Everett.

They died in a crash at a rural intersection 10 miles southeast of Chehalis Saturday.

The car carrying the four Snohomish County residents was southbound on Meier Road when it collided with a car driven by Douglas McClure, 20, of Winlock, Lewis County.

McClure and three passengers, all Lewis County residents, were injured.

One of them, Jane Extine, 25, Toledo, was in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center.

She suffered a broken pelvis, internal injuries and burns.

Both cars overturned and came to rest on their tops after the collision.

All four people in the Bruce car were ejected, troopers reported. None of the eight people involved in the accident was wearing a seat belt, Kluckhohn said. Both cars were destroyed.

In another accident a motorcyclist died after he collided head-on with a car while trying to pass another vehicle on Highway 92 just outside Granite Falls.

The man was identified as Allan C. Richey, 38, of Camano Island.

Gold Bar resident Kurt Lindsey, 31, died when his truck collided with a car driven by a Denver woman on Highway 2, about 35 miles east of Everett.

The woman suffered back and leg injuries.

Kirkland resident Vicki Bleifuss, 35, a passenger in Lindsey's car, suffered broken ribs and internal injuries.

Patrol officials were investigating the accident.