Driver arrested after deadly crash on Rainier Avenue

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Seattle police are investigating after a driver was arrested and a woman was killed in a crash in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood early Monday morning. 

At about 1:15 a.m., a driver in a Jeep lost control of her vehicle on Rainier Avenue South, and struck a light pole and tree at a high rate of speed near South Findlay Street. 

 Police said one of the passengers, a 25-year-old woman, was killed and the driver, a 19-year-old woman, was not "significantly injured."

According to investigators, the driver showed signs of impairment. 

Police said she was booked into the King County on suspicion of vehicular homicide.


 

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