FOUR LAKES -- A single-vehicle collision on Interstate 90 claimed the life of an Albany, Ore. man early Friday morning, Dec. 27.
According to a Washington State Patrol press memo, at approximately 5:42 a.m. 57-year--old Mykola Tretyak was eastbound on I-90 in a 1999 Ford F250 pickup towing a utility trailer when he lost control of the vehicle and struck the guardrail in the median. The trailer detached from the pickup and also struck the guardrail, with the pickup striking the guardrail a second time, traveling through the barrier and eventually rolling down the median to finally come to rest on the shoulder of the westbound lanes. The trailer remained in the eastbound lanes.
Tretyak was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred near milepost 268 about two miles west of the Four Lakes exit under slippery road conditions due to a recent snowfall.
State Patrol investigators listed the cause of the accident as speed.
John McCallum can be reached at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com.
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