Crime & Safety
2 Dead In Renton Crash After Truck Goes Over Embankment
A child and her older brother died in the crash, which was discovered early Saturday morning.
RENTON, WA - Renton police believe speed was a factor in a deadly accident that left a young girl and a 20-year-old man dead Saturday morning. Police and fire crews responded to the 3000 block of Royal Hills Drive around 8:30 a.m. Saturday and found a pickup truck down an embankment with its two passengers nearby.
Police later determined that the 7-year-old girl and the 20-year-old man were brother and sister. They been ejected from the Dodge pickup truck when it went over the embankment, police said.
The location of the crash is inside an apartment complex that overlooks the Cedar River southeast of the downtown area.
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Police are still investigating what caused the crash.
Renton Fire crews on scene of a double fatality when a car went over an embankment. Crews stabaling scene for RPD investigation.
— Renton Fire PIO (@RentonFirePIO) July 22, 2017
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