Motorcycle Crash Kills Couple From Sprague

The Washington State Patrol has identified a couple from Sprague killed in a crash on Highway 12 near Yakima on Saturday. Troopers say 70-year-old Robert McEachern was riding his motorcycle with 67-year-old Ellen McEachern on the back when they rear-ended a Jeep Wrangler which was stopped for traffic west of the interchange exit to Selah and Interstate 82. The driver of the jeep was treated and released from a local hospital a passenger was not injured.
Robert McEachern died at the scene and his wife Ellen later died at Yakima Regional Hospital.