PORT ANGELES — The blood-alcohol level of a Port Angeles man, killed in a head-on collision on Old Olympic Highway in which two others died, was four times the legal limit, investigators said.
Toxicology testing of Aaron Clark Eaton’s body revealed that he was driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.32 percent when the Aug. 20 collision occurred, Clallam County Undersheriff Joe Martin said Tuesday.
The legal limit is 0.08 percent, and for most people, 0.02 percent represents about one drink, according to the organizations Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.
The newly released autopsy results also showed traces of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in Eaton’s blood system, Martin said.
The 24-year-old Eaton was driving a Honda Accord west-bound when the car crossed the center line just north of U.S. Highway 101 and struck a Toyota Camry containing four occupants, Sheriff’s Department reports said.
Eaton and a passenger in the Camry, Kevin “Kip” Lindsay, a 42-year-old schoolteacher from Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, died soon after the crash, investigators and witnesses said.
Lindsay’s mother, Irma Lindsay, 73, of Sequim, died of her injuries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Aug. 29. She had been a reading instructor at Peninsula College since 1978.
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