PORT ANGELES — Three North Olympic Peninsula residents recently injured in two separate wrecks remained at Harborview Medical Center on Monday.
The three residents — a mother and child from Port Angeles and a 21-year-old man from Port Townsend — were taken to Harborview after separate highway wrecks Saturday and Friday, respectively.
Mindy Aisling, 35, of Port Angeles was in serious condition in the Harborview intensive care unit. Her son, Noah, 11, was upgraded from serious to satisfactory condition and is slated to be released to non-ICU care, according to a Harborview spokeswoman.
Aisling and Noah, who were passengers in a vehicle driven by Mindy’s husband, Logan Aisling, 45, were traveling on U.S. Highway 101 near Sequim when it was hit head-on by an oncoming pickup truck Saturday.
The State Patrol said Ronald J. Wilcox, 59, of Port Angeles was driving a GMC C10 pickup westbound on Highway 101 when he swerved over the center line to avoid stopped traffic waiting to turn left onto Louella Road and collided with the eastbound Toyota Prius C sedan driven by Logan Aisling.
Cori J. Wilcox, 14, a passenger in the pickup, and Logan Aisling were taken to Olympic Medical Center, where they were treated and released.
Mindy Aisling is an advertising sales representative for the Peninsula Daily News and owner of Amita Life Coaching in Port Angeles.
Logan Aisling is a chemistry teacher at Port Angeles High School and an Outward Bound fitness instructor. Noah Carlson is their son.
Ronald Wilcox, who was not injured in the crash, was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the State Patrol said.
He was booked into the Clallam County jail Saturday night for investigation of vehicular assault.
He had been released by Monday afternoon. The prosecutor’s office is deferring a charging decision on Wilcox pending completion of the wreck’s investigation, John Troberg, Clallam County chief criminal deputy, said Monday.
Pedestrian struck
Steven A. Springgate, 21, of Port Townsend was in satisfactory condition at Harborview on Monday and had been transferred out of the ICU, the hospital spokeswoman said.
Springgate was struck by two separate vehicles Friday night on state Highway 19 in Port Hadlock near Charles Street.
Springgate was airlifted to the Seattle hospital after being struck by a 1987 Ford Crown Victoria driven by Natalia M. Collier, 29, of Chimacum, then a 1995 Ford Contour driven by Jason L. McCloskey, 34, of Oak Harbor, according to a State Patrol report.
The report said that, at 8:17 p.m., Springgate walked into the southbound lane of Highway 19 near Charles Street and was struck by the southbound Crown Victoria.
Springgate landed in a center turn lane, the State Patrol said.
Collier, who was not injured ran to a nearby restaurant, and two restaurant customers followed Collier back to the scene and tried to direct traffic into the restaurant parking lot, according to an East Jefferson Fire-Rescue report.
An oncoming Ford Contour driven by Jason McCloskey instead “swerved into the center turn lane” and “ran over the victim and dragged him approximately 75 feet,” according to the report.
