PORT ANGLES — Two Port Angeles youth were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning.
Garrett Payton, 19, of Port Angeles, and an unidentified teenaged girl were injured at 1:45 a.m. when a Volkswagen Golf, driven by Elijah Robert Sanford, 18, of Sequim, left the roadway while traveling east on Heuhslein Road, east of Port Angeles, Clallam County Sheriff Sgt. John Hollis said Sunday afternoon.
The girl, who Hollis said was unrelated to Sanford, was a passenger in the vehicle, which rolled over, ejected the girl, and came to a rest nearly 100 yards from the point it left the road.
She had internal injuries, and was taken by ambulance to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles before being transferred by helicopter to Harborview, he said.
Hollis said that Harborview listed her in serious condition and was in surgery Sunday afternoon.
Payton, also a passenger, also was treated at Olympic Medical Center and transported to Harborview via ambulance.
He also was in serious condition Sunday afternoon, according to a Harborview spokesperson.
Sanford had minor abrasions from the wreck, affording to the Sheriff’s Office report.
“Alcohol and marijuana consumption, as well as speed are all factors in this accident,” Hollis said.
Sanford has been booked into the Clallam County jail on investigation of two counts of vehicular assault, and one count each of driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and possession 40 grams or less of marijuana, according to the jail log.
Results from laboratory blood tests performed on Sanford are pending, Hollis said.
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