3 High Schoolers Killed In Crash With Semi Identified

LYNNWOOD, WA - The three teens killed after their SUV slid under a parked semi early Wednesday morning were all high school students in the Everett School District. All three who died attended Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett. A fourth person, a 15-year-old girl, survived the crash and is a student at Cascade High School in Everett.

The Snohomish County Medical Examiner identified the three killed as Landon M. Staley, 16, of Everett; Travin K. Nelson-Phongphiou, 16, of Everett; and Mikayla Sorenson, 15 of Bothell. They died of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the medical examiner

The teens were driving northbound along Alderwood Mall Parkway around 4 a.m. Wednesday when their Kia Sorrento plowed into the back of a parked semi. The SUV slid underneath the semi, severing the roof.

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said that it's legal for semitrailers to park along Alderwood Mall Parkway, but the semi involved in the Wednesday crash was parked in the wrong direction. That's a civil infraction.

The Everett School District provided grief counselors at Jackson High School on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sole survivor of the crash is in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

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