Driver dies in Tacoma crash. Causing driver arrested for vehicular homicide
A driver is suspected of striking another vehicle while intoxicated in Tacoma on Tuesday night, killing a person in the other car.
Officers were dispatched at 8:06 p.m. to Yakima Avenue and South 23rd Street. A driver had crashed into another vehicle on South 23rd, Tacoma Police Department officer Shelbie Boyd told The News Tribune.
The man who was in the second vehicle was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was pronounced dead Wednesday morning.
The 22-year-old driver who allegedly caused the crash was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide and DWI, jail records show.
Boyd said the crash was under investigation until midnight.
Puneet Bsanti
The News Tribune