Seattle Boy, 13, Dies Months After Crash Near Cle Elum

SEATTLE, WA - A middle school student from Seattle died this week two months after he was involved in a deadly crash near Cle Elum. Nico Luiggi never woke up after he was injured in the crash, according to KOMO News.

The crash happened Aug. 27 along SR 970 east of Cle Elum. Three other boys were in the car driven by a father of one of them boys. The car veered off the road into an embankment, flipping over and ejecting the boys.

Max Cohen, Luiggi's Hamilton International Middle School classmate, died at the scene. The driver has been charged with DUI, according to KOMO, and state patrol suspected the driver had been impaired. The boys were not wearing seat belts, according to WSP.

"To all who have been graciously supporting our family, it is with tremendous sadness, emptiness and helplessness, to have to inform you that our beloved Nico passed away peacefully this morning," Luiggi's family wrote on a GoFundMe page this week.

One of the boys involved in the crash is still hospitalized, and another has been released from the hospital, according to KOMO.

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