PORT ANGELES — The memories are still vivid.
A motor home with family members from Missouri hurtling down Mount Angeles Drive after an outing in Olympic National Park.
The brakes failing as the road becomes Race Street, the huge vehicle smashing into cars in the Lauridsen Boulevard intersection.
Finally, the out-of-control motor home smashing into a guardrail north of Lauridsen and plummeting into the Peabody Creek gully, taking out a bigleaf maple tree in the process.
The memory is so vivid for Port Angeles residents Rick and Kim Melvin that they are inviting members of the community to join them in remembering Lonnie Owens on Friday.
Owens, the driver, died two days after the crash on July 16, 2007.
The Melvins, who housed members of the family for a week afterward, said they will place a sign Friday that reads: “In Memory of Lonnie Owens: 1957-2007.”
The ceremony will be at about 3 p.m. at the intersection of Race Street and East Lauridsen Boulevard.
