Driver killed, pedestrian critically injured in Hazel Dell car crash
VANCOUVER, Wash. – A woman was killed and a man was critically injured in a car crash in Hazel Dell Tuesday afternoon.
According to Sgt. Fred Neiman with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened at Highway 99 and 72nd Street just after 3 p.m.
The driver, 20-year-old Annastasia Mae Morrison of Vancouver, died in the crash.
Joseph M. Reilly, 20, was walking or standing on the street when he was hit by the car and thrown across a street into a parking lot. He is in critical condition in a Vancouver hospital.
Neiman said Morrison was recklessly driving a Mazda sedan southbound on Highway 99 at a high speed when it crossed the northbound lanes, drove into the parking lot of a muffler business and hit a steel beam pillar in the parking lot.
Morrison was killed on impact.
Reilly was hit by Morrison's car on the north side of 72nd street and thrown onto the south side of the street, Neiman said.
Highway 99 was closed at the crash scene during the investigation.
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Can we reserve judgement on the driver. I think maybe it would be better to determine what exactly happened. Could the throttle have gotten stuck, it just doesn't seem right short of suicide Why this would be intentional.
KATU, why are you offering reports on TV about the names of the victim and driver and, now, the C-Tran video but not providing updates to this story? Because I live near here, it IS news for me.
Well now we know.
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At least the right person died. Hopefully the innocent bystander will survive.
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I await all the friends of the dead, and rightfully so, driver to come and chastise me for being insensitive, mean spirited, Nazi, facsict, and what ever other adjectives they want to use. They will say what a wonderful person she was and how she lit up the room when she walked in.
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Well, from where I sit she was selfish women who put a lot of innocent people at risk of injury or death and put one innocent person in the hospital fighting for his life.
 @RalphCramden Well put.
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Hey, you're supposed to be the devils advocate.....8-}
 @RalphCramden The Devil just wanted to collect on a Hell-worthy soul.........
At 2:52 p.m., a dark gray Mazda heading south on Highway 99 swerved across the street at a high rate of speed and wrapped around a pole in the parking lot of My Daddyâs Automotive at 7205 N.E. Highway 99, said Sgt. Dennis Pritchard with the Clark County Sheriffâs Office. The speed limit there is 35 mph.
Jeff Pierson, owner of the automotive shop, saw the car cross into northbound traffic lanes and skid sideways. He thought it was going to crash through his store front window before the car hit a pole in his parking lot.
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If the owner of Daddy's Automotive seen it all happen, how can he not see the pedestrian before it happened? I'm thinking he was drunk as well and was running late to work and then that's when it all happen.
CORRECTION....I was talking about the 21 yr. old boy, not the owner of Daddy's Automotive.
 @EastSideGma You were still assuming that the driver was the 21 year old man who is currently in serious/critical condition... He was, by all reports that I've heard, the pedestrian. He was hit by a 20 year old woman who was never supposed to be on the road, considering she had a suspended license.
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Also, when you're driving insanely fast - your reaction time stays the same. You don't have enough time to react to something like that.
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Just glad that the driver died, and not the victim (thus far).
 @advocatus diaboli  @EastSideGma I'll agree with most of what you said. I try to not wish death on anyone.
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But... have you seen the C-Tran video? Scary! Too bad you can't really see the pedestrian on the other side of the road but it looks like a pedestrian on the right side of the road almost got taken out, too!
 @EastSideGma Awfully judgmental, aren't you? Accusing the owner of a business being drunk and running late? I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure he was focused on the vehicle careening toward his shop - not people on the sidewalk.
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Good grief.
 @advocatus diaboli I was talking about the boy, not the Daddy's Automotive owner.
 @advocatus diaboli  @EastSideGma Nah, I think she's trying to say the innocent victim was drunk and running late to work. Which, even if that were to be the case, I fail to see how a drunk pedestrian on the other side of the road is of any concern to a driver doing what she should have been legally doing.
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Worse yet, since the reports are saying the driver was driving on a suspended license (let alone at least under the influence of alcohol), she most likely had NO INSURANCE. This poor man is going to need some significant cash flowing his way very, very soon.
Just an FYI, NOBODY knows what the situation was. What if she just got an emergency call that was serious, maybe she was trying to get out of a bad situation, maybe she was threatened by someone, or maybe she did it just because she's a fast driver. What ever it was, she's gone. All you heartless boobs need to just shut the "F" up. I know how it is when you get a bad call, you don't think of how fast your going because your wondering if your going to get there on time before they die. Whatever the reason. Why don't you all quit bashing her on how stupid she...hers and his family are hurting enough as it is. This is the Holiday season, GIVE them your condolences and not negativity. And if your christians, then a "BIG SHAME ON YOU"
 @EastSideGma She shouldn't have been behind the wheel, period. It's her own fault.
 Many more details here: http://www.kptv.com/story/20211411/deputies-identify-20-year-old-woman-killed-in-high-speed-crash
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"..you heartless boobs need to just shut the "F" up". Doesn't sound very Christian-like to me..
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Regardless, "reserve your sympathy for the victims of crime, not the perps" is my motto, and I'll stick with it.
I never said anything that I myself was a Christian, I'm just not a heartless person. Put yourself in her parents place, you would be asking yourself, you've done everything right, but what went wrong. ONLY GOD knows what really happened.
 @EastSideGma  @lunaclara What boy? Clearly you know more of the story than the rest of us do. Please enlighten us for our misplaced sympathies.
 @lunaclara Are you guys not getting it???? It is still in question that it may have been the boy driving. Until you know the the real cause, back off.
My beloved sister-in-law and a friend were killed, and a third friend was injured by a drunk driver. Driving on a suspended license. Two previous DUIs. Yep, I guess I'm pretty darn heartless about people failing to keep up their obligation to society and killing other people in the process. I am glad that in this case only she paid the highest possible price for her behavior - the pedestrian will live. To her friends and family, I would say that I am deeply regretful that they would lose her this way. And I would ask that they remember the consequences of not reporting a loved one driving on a suspended driver's license. Having them really pissed at you is preferable to having them dead.
 @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE yeah but we are more knowledgeable. Oh yah, and I don't drink. I'm the one who gets people home safe.
 @EastSideGma "Have you ever been drunk?"
Yeah, but I don't drink much. But when I do, I MAKE SURE, I don't have to drive myself home -- it's.pretty.simply.actually.
 @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Have you ever been drunk? I had friends that knew they were drunk and tried to fight me for the keys. And I think like alcohol, your first license shouldn't be given out til 21 yrs of age.
She could of been by herself too...nobody knows
 @EastSideGma Yeah, fair enough - but someone, somewhere HAD to know she was STILL driving and failed to a). convince her to stop and/or b). didn't report her driving on a suspended license (a CLEAR violation of the law).  So, yeah, I feel sorry *some* for the parents, but not for her -- she should have known better.  It's tragic, but in our society in this day and age, sometimes a person's bad decisions or inferior intellect actually do cause significant harm to one's person.  "Responsibility" is the key operative word here.
Have you ever thought that she might not even live with parents? She is 20, so give her parents a break, there probably dying inside.
 @EastSideGma If I were one of the parents, I would never let her get behind the wheel of her car, my car, a friend's car, ... ANY CAR/TRUCK.. ANYWHERE.  When a person is arrested, convicted, sentenced for DUI, society is trying to tell the person something: "YOU AREN"T SUPPOSED TO BE DRIVING IDIOT!"  She apparently, didn't get the message.
Well, well.. the truth finally follows the story: driver had a suspended license, was EXCESSIVELY speeding, hit innocent pedestrian; and oh yeah, was intoxicated. Â These are the types of people that should never EVER be allowed to operate a motor vehicle under ANY circumstances for several years.. until they've proven themselves worthy to be on public roads again (implying here, that a period of several years be required to adequately vet that person in detail and over time). Â I have no sympathy for people that are REPEAT DUI drivers -- None. Why? Because, by the time they manage to acquire their first arrest, they've probably already been DUIing for many months if not years. Â I also support the most severe punishment possible. Â In this case, I'm glad the perp took herself out of the gene pool. I don't feel sorry for her -- not one iota's worth. Sadly, though, an innocent person was killed by the perp and that is unforgivable.
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And they're still not sure if she was the one driving yet either.
 @EastSideGma  @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE If she wasn't the one driving, the driver walked away from the accident. It certainly isn't the victim.
SO, are you perfect???? are you one of those that think your crap don't stink and your living a perfect life?....UMMMM....NO.            Â
It could've been the boy that killed her. I just wish you all would stop your trash talking.
Wait till you know the truth of this horrible story.
 @EastSideGma Well, I don't break any laws if that's what you mean. And, I have a perfect -- yes PERFECT -- driving record after 35 yrs of driving. Yup.
 @EastSideGma  @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Seriously? You're calling people dumbasses? I was pointing out the fact that you're obviously lacking education along with your immaturity. My reading skills aren't in question, believe me... I have plenty of schooling (where I learned and retained information, mind you).
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Have a wonderful day whilst you spew your filth! Bye now!
 @advocatus diaboli  @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Oh no, I forgot the word "to" between how and read.
 @advocatus diaboli  @EastSideGma  @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Wow really dumb ass, your one of those that attacks a small mis-spelled word? f'ing grow up. That comment was about how he said he hasn't had a ticket in 35 years, and I had one. So learn how read properly and you would of figured that out.
 @EastSideGma  @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Dear "EastSideGma": The term is "you're", not "your". It doesn't matter if "Poster" is physically older than you, they're definitely much more mature. That's not merely an opinion, that's pretty much a fact after looking through your previous comments.
 @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE Your probably quite a few years older than me too.
 @EastSideGma "I had one ticket "
Not me.
That don't make you perfect!!!! I've never broken any laws and I had one ticket for speeding, 10 miles over the speed limit and that was 28 yrs ago. That don't make me perfect.
Whein I was a new driver, 16 yrs old, and driving like a foolish idiot, speeding, 80 mph out on a country road in the first rain of the season,. My car began to skid and I lost control, rolling end over end 3 times down a ravine. I was VERY lucky I had as little injuries as I did....soft tissue injuries Iâm now paying for...BUT, I'm thankful I didn't injure or kill anyone in my irresponsible driving. Young people just don't understand how one can be killed in a heartbeat or by a foolish move or act and they often feel invincible
My heart really does go out to this young man and his loved ones. Lets all pray he will make it and that he will have some quality of life after heâs out of the hospitalâ¦Iâm sure will be years of therapy heâll have to go through.
As far as the young girl, well, she chose to drive like an idiot, I'm sure she's seen what reckless driving can result in, least I think the drivers ED classes give stern warnings to potential drivers....but still, my heart also goes out to her as she's dead now and you just can't undo-dead!
Her family and loved ones lives are forever changed...and is the holiday seasons...Merry Christmas will never have the same meaning and Iâm sure her mom, grandma and father and those who loved her are devastated beyond belief and by this weekend her body will be in the cold ground or reduced to a box of ashes....she's paid the ultimate price by her foolishness and so has another young man, an innocent bystanderâ¦all because this girl made the choice to drive in the manner she did.
I wonder if she had a reaction to medication? A seizure? Brain aneurysm, or stroke? Something to make her zone out and drive the way she did....but if she was just driving like a careless idiot....then wow!
We may never know what went wrong with her thinking or lack ofâ¦but if she did this with malice aforethought, then she will have to answer to God for this one! For THAT is plain and simpleâ¦1st degree MURDER! Even for self!
Just tragic all way around...no one wins in this ugly ordeal....except maybe the lawyers!
My heart goes out to Joseph Reilly and his family, hopefully this young man will make it. It is so sad that SO MANY ignorant people made inaccurate statements regarding this accident, I'm sure that it really helped the investigation with people stating they saw an argument in the Fred Meyer parking lot and that he was driving when the car took off??? Do people just want to be in the lime light, is it pure stupidity??? While these idiots were making comments that the guy should be hung etc etc he was the innocent victim laying in the ICU fighting for his life. For whatever reason this young lady was spotted driving dangerously fast on I-5 then exited 78th Street and continued driving dangerously into Hazel Dell (read the article in Columbian). It would be the responsible, intelligent thing to be sure what you are posting is accurate, especially when the victim is dangerously close to losing his life. For whatever reason this young lady chose to drive in a manner that put the public and herself in a very dangerous situation, it caused her to lose her life, has caused injuries that will be life changing to the young man she hit not to mention the heartache that these families are going to have to endure.Â
 @ridgefieldgma "Do people just want to be in the lime light, is it pure stupidity???"
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No, often is a misunderstood situation. The person(s) who claimed to have seen the Fred Meyer situation might very well have witnessed a young man and a young woman having an argument but it may or may not have been THIS young man or THIS young woman. Just like several witnesses say a man was driving and others say a woman was driving. And others, still, say there was a passenger in the vehicle.
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"While these idiots were making comments that the guy should be hung etc etc he was the innocent victim laying in the ICU fighting for his life."
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"The guy" the people were talking about being hung could have easily been translated as "the driver". Assumptions are often made and frequently supported by statistics (male drivers tend to speed more often than any other group and that's a fact that's been proven before but might actually be changing). Is it wrong to say them? Not necessarily. It is part of human nature trying to rationalize HOW something happened. The internet and the forums give a voice to the thoughts people have in their heads (and, at times, some of those thoughts should clearly remain there).
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I posted the link to one of the Columbian's articles earlier. Sadly, the Portland news stations don't often carry Clark County news (or only on a limited scale). The Columbian's articles have been fairly well written about this story. You have to realize, too, that several of these posts were written as the story was evolving. Because of that, what was initially said in the story is missing but the comments remain. In this particular accident it originally was identified as TWO vehicles and a pedestrian. Now we see that it appears to have only been the one car and a single pedestrian.
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"intelligent thing to be sure what you are posting is accurate"
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The forum is to discuss, not post the news.  Posting the news is for the news writers. Forums are for discussion. Sadly that tends to include speculation which isn't always as straightforward or helpful.
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All things considered, the posts on this story have actually been some of the better posts, believe it or not. Some posters have been downright rude to the people most directly involved in these situations. Really, really ugly and nasty, actually. So, by calling the posts below "tame" hopefully you'll understand that, right or wrong, there is a LOT of name calling and bullying that go on in public forums here and elsewhere (especially if your identity is hidden).
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Similarly, having been privy to information on both sides of some local news stories, I can also say the news does tend to have a bias on the reporting it tends to do. So the news isn't always as truthful as one would like it to be. But they have to be the first to get the story before it breaks in public forums or social media sites because, if that's how the rest of us will be getting our news in the future, the news businesses will no longer be able to economically exist and we'll also not be able to trust the information we are receiving.
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"For whatever reason this young lady chose to drive in a manner that put the public and herself in a very dangerous situation, it caused her to lose her life, has caused injuries that will be life changing to the young man she hit not to mention the heartache that these families are going to have to endure."
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Speaking of speculation, you're speculating too, by stating that the young lady chose to drive in a manner that put herself and the public in a dangerous situation. We don't exactly know yet why she was driving erratically or speeding. Arguably, most of the time someone speeds or drives in a reckless manner it is not for a good reason and it is against the law but there are the times where it might be a bit more justified than others. Even legal or illegal drugs can cause behaviors that are otherwise unexplainable. Unless you know both parties involved fairly well, your comment is just as much inaccurate as the others you challenge.
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The bottom line is that one person is very critically injured and another has passed away. We don't yet know why. The articles being written and televised are still speculation.
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There are two sets of families who are grieving for their serious losses. I really hope the man makes it through all of this. His family and friends seem more than willing to be there to support him and, I hope, they remain by his side to help him recover as quickly as he can into whatever new man he may become.
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My heart reaches out to both sets of families and friends. They will need the strength and support of the community to move forward -- not divisive hostility and random speculation.
KATU:: "Initial reports from said two..." ????? Hey staff, does this make sense to you? If not, why didn't you fix it before publishing it?  DDUUHHHHH!!!!!!
According to an eye witness that commented on the Columbian article re this accident it was the woman that was driving the car and the injured male was the pedestrian, guess everyone should stop commenting that HE should be strung up until the actual facts come out, a little unfair!!!
An OR plated Mazda going like heck south-bound on HWY 99 in Vancouver that lost it. Â Just up the road from me and I heard it and it breaks my heart that his young female passenger had to die. The biggest thing that pisses me off is that folks are doing whatever they can to skirt the crash scene even though the entire HWY is closed and end-up driving right over where the young lady was found dead. Human nature at its 'best' these days...
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Is human nature to be curious...WE ALL LOOK! Except those in a coma or totally out of it!! Perhaps there's another point you may want to consider before stating what you did....What if those as you wrote.... "end up driving right over where the young lady was found dead"... were clueless as to there being an accident and too distracted to notice the roads being blocked? Or perhaps confused as to which way to goâ¦just because there were signs, flares up, doesnât mean the police officer in charge of handling traffic control got things correct.
Also keep in mind, not everyone is tuned to local news and perhaps were just going about their business totally clueless or may have been too distracted with their own problems.....so THAT isn't being stupid or in the wrong...its just people living their lives here on Planet Earth!. As I first wrote, we're all about the same when it comes to gawking or curious to go out of our way to look at something out of the ordinary...some more, some less. And like looking/gawking/lurking AT the accident or out of ordinary happening, thereâs also making public comments on forumsâ¦isnât much different, really⦠Except a select few super intelligent or a cut above the rest of the crowd who rarely take a 2nd look or thought!  But perhaps you're one of the select few...or maybe are just another "bone head!"â¦human nature at its "best" these days....
@boned Jump to conclusions much? Maybe you should wait until the facts are in before passing judgment. According to the Columbian, a witness said the woman was driving and the man was a pedestrian.
 @I812  @boned Several witness reports are coming out with a male driver and others I've seen with female drivers. I've only seen that the pedestrian was female (or, now, maybe passenger). They do keep changing what they are reporting and the stories don't always reflect that they've changed their story.
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There will also be cameras from all of the businesses in the area that should help in the accident reconstruction process.
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I actually trust boned. I don't think he's judging, either.
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Basically, people are driving through the parking lot of the Collins Construction lot (where reports have said the woman was thrown to -- so "driving right over where the young lady was found dead" from boned's post) to avoid the bigger area of the accident scene all the while possibly destroying evidence and certainly not respecting or honoring the woman who died.
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Odds are (and this is speculation, not judgement, based on what I've observed with drivers in that area) they're also traveling through the side roads at high rates of speed because they're ticked off they had to wait in the traffic back up and need to make up for lost time -- at least that sounds better than they're just jerks without a care in the world.
 @I812  @CTWU  @boned Hmmm- "of Vancouver" and "driving her 2006 Mazda" don't line up - except as far as being evidence of yet another lying cheat driving and illegally tagged vehicle. Perhaps just looking out for herself by 'saving' some money and cheating all of Washington, Clark County and Vancouver out of the funds due that go to clean up messes like this.Thank everyone who cheats on tags. You're all liars.
@CTWU @boned From the Columbian:Â "
Traffic homicide investigators with the Clark County Sheriffâs Office identified the man and woman involved in Tuesday afternoonâs fatal single-car crash.
Annastasia Morrison, 20, of Vancouver was driving her 2006 Mazda MX6 4-door sedan at a high rate of speed south on Highway 99 when she lost control and crashed into a pole in the parking lot of My Daddyâs Automotive at Northeast 72nd Street, according to a bulletin from the sheriffâs office. Morrison was killed on impact and the car cut in half, said traffic homicide detective James Payne.
Joseph Reilly, 21, of Vancouver was walking on the north side of Northeast 72nd Street at Highway 99 on his way to work at Smokeyâs Hot Oven Pizza, when he was struck by the Mazda. Reilly was thrown across 72nd Street from the impact, into the parking lot of Collins Plaza. He was transported to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition on Wednesday night."
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boned has no credibility. He talks like he knows something but rarely does. We call that "All show, no go."