SUV overturns in two-vehicle wreck in Port Angeles

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, May 30, 2017

PORT ANGELES — Three people escaped with minor injuries Sunday after a two-vehicle rollover wreck at Second and Vine streets in Port Angeles, police said.

Donald Nelson, 74, of Suquamish was driving a Ford Explorer when he failed to yield at the intersection and struck a Ford Thunderbird driven by Ernest Sansregret, 63, of Port Angeles, Police Sgt. Joshua Powless said.

Sansregret had been traveling southbound on Vine Street and Nelson had been westbound on Second Street when the collision occurred at about 11:30 a.m., Powless said.

Responding officers found two occupants trapped inside the overturned Explorer, Powless said.

City police, Port Angeles Fire Department personnel and Clallam County sheriff’s deputies extracted the occupants.

The passenger in the Explorer was transported by ambulance to Olympic Medical Center for minor injuries.

Nelson and Sansregret were treated at the scene, Powless said.

“Based on the damage to the [Explorer], it is believed that the condition of the occupants would have been much worse had they not been utilizing seat belts,” Powless said in a Monday news release.

Nelson was issued a traffic infraction for failing to yield at the yield sign.

Drugs or alcohol were not suspected as causes in the wreck, Powless said.

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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56450, or at rollikainen@peninsula dailynews.com.