PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Angeles woman was airlifted to a Seattle hospital after a pickup driven by a Port Angeles man collided head-on with her SUV on Thanksgiving Day.
The wreck at 8:09 p.m. Thursday on state Highway 20 near Fairmont Road about 9 miles southwest of Port Townsend was caused by negligent driving, the State Patrol said in a memo.
Robin J. Jensen, 53, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Her condition was not available from the hospital on Saturday.
Mark E. Burkhardt, 44, was not injured, the State Patrol said, after his 2017 Dodge Ram pickup hit Jensen’s 2015 BMW SUV. Burkhardt was traveling east on Highway 20 while Jensen was traveling west.
The State Patrol said in its memo that Burkhardt, “distracted by the dark, ambient lighting from oncoming traffic,” drifted to the right and into the ditch at Fairmont Road, over-corrected and veered across the centerline, slamming into Jensen’s vehicle.
The highway was fully blocked for about two hours, the State Patrol said.
The State Patrol said that drugs or alcohol were involved in the wreck but that “impairment did not play a part in the collision.”
Troopers cited Burkhardt with second-degree negligent driving.
Both vehicles were completely destroyed, the State Patrol said.
