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Two Die After Car Goes Over Cliff
Two 19-year-old friends died and a third man was injured during a camping trip over the weekend when the Jeep Cherokee they were riding in plunged 600 feet off a cliff.
Tom Melbye and Nickolas Garcia died in the accident early Saturday, about 15 miles north of Ellensburg in Kittitas County, sheriff's deputies said.
Cameron Haynes, a student at Central Washington University, was injured but was able to call emergency dispatchers. He was treated at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital for injuries to his head and face.
Haynes' brother, Shea, was also on the trip but was sleeping at the group's camp on Upper Reecer Creek when the crash occurred around 2:15 a.m., said Undersheriff Clayton Myers.
The other three men had taken Melbye's Jeep out on some trails around their campsite when Melbye lost control of the vehicle while attempting a turn on the canyon rim, said Myers.
Search-and-rescue teams had to reach the vehicle using a logging road in the area.
Melbye and Garcia were childhood friends who graduated from Moses Lake High School in 2004. Melbye was attending Washington State University, and Garcia was a student at Eastern Washington University.