<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Courtesy of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Two WSU students dead, four injured in weekend collisions</h1><h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline" class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 10px 100px 10px 0px; font-size: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Both incidents remain under investigation</h2></div><div><br></div><div>Two Washington State University Students are dead and four were injured over the weekend in two collisions as they made their way back to WSU for the spring, 2017 semester.</div><div><br></div><div>Rachel Pomeroy, 20, died about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when traveling eastbound on state Highway 26, 16 miles west of Washtucna, Wash., when her 2003 Acura collided head on with a 2016 Ford Explorer driven by 60-year-old Donald Graham of Bothell, Wash.</div><div><br></div><div>Graham was not injured.</div><div><br></div><div>Nineteen-year-old Dashell Mortell of Bainbridge Island died Saturday about 2 p.m. when the vehicle he was riding in with four other students rear-ended a car that had stopped for a collision on Interstate 90 near Cle Elum.</div><div><br></div><div>The vehicle, an SUV driven by 21-year-old WSU student Andrew Hammond of Bremerton, rolled onto its side and was struck in the roof by an oncoming pickup pulling a trailer.</div><div><br></div><div>John Crawford, 18, of Vancouver was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and remained in critical condition Monday morning, while Hammond, 21-year-old Chanlin Morgan of Bremerton and 21-year-old Justin Crawford of Vancouver were transported to Kittitas Valley Hospital in Ellensburg.</div><div><br></div><div>Each occupant of the vehicle was a WSU student.</div><div><br></div><div>Both collisions remain under investigation by the Washington State Patrol.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Take it cautious and careful out there, V-Peeps, because . . . </div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" </div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>