SEQUIM — An 86-year-old man was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Wednesday afternoon after sustaining life-threatening injuries in a three-vehicle collision at the intersection of Kitchen-Dick Road and Old Olympic Highway, officials said.
A second man, age unknown, was transported to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles with non-life-threatening injuries while a third man was evaluated at the scene and discharged, said Assistant Chief Tony Hudson of Clallam County Fire District 3.
“There were three patients total,” Hudson said.
Their names and hometowns were not available Wednesday.
The collision occurred at about 2:45 p.m., said Chief Criminal Deputy Brian J. King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the cause of the wreck.
It was not immediately known which vehicle hit which.
After the collision, a white 1970s Ford pickup truck, a tan late model Mercury sedan and a gray late model Toyota SUV came to rest in the grass on the northwest corner of the intersection.
The Mercury was wedged between the Ford and Toyota, the latter of which had flipped over onto its roof.
The driver of the Mercury was trapped inside his vehicle and was extricated by firefighters, Hudson said.
“We did use the Jaws of Life, along with some other tools,” he said.
The man was taken via ambulance to Sequim Valley Airport where he was loaded onto a rescue helicopter and flown to Seattle.
It was the driver of the Toyota who was transported to Olympic Medical Center while the driver of the Ford was evaluated on scene by firefighters and was not transported to a hospital.
About 10 firefighters — along with State Patrol troopers, sheriff’s deputies and officers with the Sequim Police Department — responded to the wreck.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Chris McDaniel can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or cmcdaniel@peninsuladailynews.com.
