Port Angeles resident remains in hospital following Sunday wreck near Lake Sutherland

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles resident involved in a Sunday morning wreck was recovering at a hospital Monday afternoon.

Joy L. Wetterlund, 29, was in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

She was a passenger in one of two vehicles that collided Sunday morning and the most seriously injured of the three people involved.

Ryan V. Wetterlund, 29, also of Port Angeles was treated and released Sunday, said Bobby Beeman, spokeswoman at Olympic Medical Center.

The Wetterlunds were heading westbound at about 11:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 101 in a white 2004 Ford Ranger when Ryan Wetterlund, the driver, attempted to make a left turn onto Thompson Point Road near Lake Sutherland, 13 miles west of Port Angeles.

The pickup truck collided in the eastbound lane with a 2008 Chevrolet Malibu heading east on Highway 101 at Thompson Point Road and being driven by Port Angeles resident Scott Lee Penson, 55.

All three were transported by ambulance to Olympic Medical Center.

Penson was treated and released Sunday.

Joy Wetterlund was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Sunday.

Neither alcohol nor drugs were suspected as contributing to the wreck, according to a State Patrol report.

Ryan Wetterlund has been cited for failure to yield, according to the report.