A father and son from Vancouver were killed in a crash on Interstate 5 in Lewis County on Thursday morning, officials said.
Anatoliy Kovalchuk, 43, of Vancouver was driving a 1998 Toyota T-100 pickup northbound on I-5 when he struck the rear of a 2008 Kenworth semi truck pulling a flatbed trailer driven by Truman J. Swinhart, 44, of Spokane, according to a Washington State Patrol bulletin.
Swinhart’s truck was at the end of a 4-mile traffic backup from an earlier collision that temporarily closed the highway, said Trooper Ryan Tanner, a state patrol spokesman.
Kovalchuk and his son Mark Kovalchuk, 15, were pronounced dead at the scene. Neither wore a seat belt, the WSP bulletin said.
