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Crash victim is on the mend Wrong-way driver entered highway from downtown

The Columbian
Published: July 19, 2010, 12:00am

A Vancouver woman injured in a Friday night crash on state Highway 14 was improving Sunday night in a Portland hospital.

Barbara Roll, 53, was listed in good condition at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.

The crash involved a wrong-way driver on state Highway 14 and sent four people to the hospital and blocked traffic for hours, the Washington State Patrol reported.

The crash happened at 9:42 p.m. just east of Interstate 5, when a Vancouver man, Samuel Jacobo-Rodriguez, 24, was driving the wrong way and collided with an oncoming station wagon carrying three people, according to police reports. The crash occurred in the westbound lanes of state Highway 14.

Roll was the driver of a station wagon. Her passengers, Carmen Dean, 50, and Heidi Schneider, 40, both of Vancouver also were injured and taken to separate hospitals, according to a WSP bulletin. They were all treated and released.

Jacobo-Rodriguez was taken to Southwest Washington Medical Center, where he was treated and released. Later, he was cited on suspicion of two counts of vehicular assault, according to WSP.

WSP Trooper Steve Schatzel said a Vancouver police officer had been following Jacobo-Rodriguez, who is alleged to have been impaired, in downtown Vancouver and he appeared to have entered the westbound lanes of the highway from C Street, near the Regal Cinema, headed east.

Despite warning signs there, Jacobo-Rodriguez ended up headed east in the westbound lanes of state Highway 14 and collided head-on with Roll’s vehicle, Schatzel said.

Schatzel said the police officer had signaled the wrong-way driver to pull over, but wasn’t in full-fledged pursuit, and the officer’s patrol car was not involved in the collision.

The wreck blocked all lanes of traffic until about 12:20 a.m. Saturday.

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