Port Angeles: Fatality closes U.S. 101, causes huge traffic backup

PORT ANGELES — A local woman was killed Wednesday afternoon when she was struck by a car while trying to cross U.S. Highway 101.

The highway was closed on Thanksgiving Eve for at least two hours following the 1:30 p.m. incident, backing up traffic from Baker Road through the western part of downtown into the evening.

Denise A. Proper, 47, died in Harborview Medical Center’s emergency room in Seattle at about 4 p.m., the Washington State Patrol reported late Wednesday.

Proper was airlifted there from Olympic Medical Center following the incident near Baker Road, adjacent to Market Place grocery store, 2343 E. U.S. Highway 101.

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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition. Click on SUBSCRIBE, above, to get the PDN delivered to your home or office.

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