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Van And Car Crash Kills One, Injures Two

November 8, 2005

After a deadly crash on Woodinville-Duvall road, one boy is dead and two others were injured. The three boys were headed home after class on Tuesday afternoon when the crash occurred.

They were at the intersection with 160th Avenue Northeast when their Ford sedan collided with a van.

The boys were turning left to head west toward Woodinville. They were struck by a van that was heading east.

The driver of the van has been identified as a 65-year old man who was headed towards Duvall. After the accident the van came to rest on its side.

The man claims that the seatbelt saved his life after rescue crews found him hanging from his seatbelt in the van.

The one fatality of the accident has been identified as 15-year-old Adam Vallejo-Robinson, said a spokesman from the King County Medical Examiner's Office.

The driver and the passenger in the front seat were both returning from class at Lake Washington Technical Academy in the Rose Hill area of Kirkland. The driver had taken a different route through the back roads in order to go around traffic.

Investigators are speculating that the airbags and seatbelts accounted for the survival of the two boys in the front two seats.

Vallejo-Robinson was also wearing his seat belt in the back seat. The boy was not a student at the same school and his family is still not clear on why he was in the car at that time.

Adam was a student at Odle Middle School in Bellevue. He was in his first semester of eight grade.

The investigation is continuing, authorities said.