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Wapato Man Dies After Driving Into Canal
Wapato Man Dies After Driving Into Canal
Wapato Man Dies After Driving Into Canal
WAPATO,-- The Washington State Patrol says a Wapato man died after driving off the road into an irrigation canal five miles west of Wapato. According to the WSP and an eyewitness account, 56-year-old Matthew Voelker was heading west on Lateral 1 Road Saturday night, when he left the road near Lateral C Road and went into the canal...
Man Hurt After His Car Rolls Into Canal
Man Hurt After His Car Rolls Into Canal
Man Hurt After His Car Rolls Into Canal
Washington State Patrol are investigating a single car accident that sent one man to the hospital after his car rolled into the canal Thursday evening. Troopers say 69-year-old Antonio Carmona-Vazquez of Wapato was driving northbound North Track Road, about one mile south of Wapato, when he lost control, drifted and struck a bridge guardrail...
Excessive Speed May be to Blame for Fatal Car Accident
Excessive Speed May be to Blame for Fatal Car Accident
Excessive Speed May be to Blame for Fatal Car Accident
Excessive speed may be to blame for a deadly car accident in Grandview. Sheriff's deputies say a man was traveling on Elm Street when he lost control of his car and plunged into a canal. The car was under water for eight hours before anyone discovered the accident...
Sunnyside Irrigation To Celebrate Completion Of Water Project
Sunnyside Irrigation To Celebrate Completion Of Water Project
Sunnyside Irrigation To Celebrate Completion Of Water Project
A special event set for June 6 will bring federal, state, and private partners together to celebrate the completion of a nine-year, $45 million water conservation construction effort aimed at improving irrigation deliveries and enhancing instream flows for threatened and endangered fish...
Toddler Drowns In Yakima Canal
Toddler Drowns In Yakima Canal
Toddler Drowns In Yakima Canal
Family members of 18-month-old Tanner Morrison were watching him May 12 when Yakima County Sheriff's deputies say the family lost site of him for only one minute. Then panic set in, 911 was called, and authorities soon found the child in an irrigation canal in the 2 hundred block of North 34th Street...