TACOMA — Two Tacoma children were killed alongside three other people when an SUV struck an overpass post and caught on fire near Puyallup on Sunday.
At about 4:20 a.m. a 2017 Ford Flex carrying five people was traveling east on state Route 512 near Puyallup when the driver drove off the road and crashed into one of the posts that supports the overpass at 31st Avenue Southwest. The SUV caught on fire and all five people died at the scene, according to Washington State Patrol.
The eastbound roadway was blocked for more than eight hours, a WSP news release said.
Two of the passengers were 11-year-old girls from Tacoma and another was a Sumner man whose age has not been released yet. There was a third female passenger whose age was not released. It was reported she was not wearing a seat belt. The driver was a 29-year-old from Sumner, the release said.
