Date: 05/14/2004
Time: Around 7:20 A.M.
Location: Rosalia, Washington
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Focus, Chevy Tahoe
By
John Craig
The Spokesman-Review
"A Spokane woman who turned 21 earlier this month was killed Friday
morning in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 195 at Rosalia.
Stephanie
Calvert’s compact Ford Focus was crushed when it collided at 7:25 a.m.
with a Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle driven by Shelley R.
Solberg, 52, of Colbert.
Calvert died at the scene, 35 miles south
of Spokane. Solberg and two 14-year-old boys in her vehicle were taken
to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with injuries that police said
appeared to include broken bones and cuts.
Solberg was in
satisfactory condition Friday afternoon, but the boys — including her
son and a friend of his — were in serious condition in the pediatric
intensive-care unit.
The Washington State Patrol did not identify the boys because they are minors.
Trooper Bruce Blood said Calvert was northbound when her car drifted into the southbound lane, almost to the fog line.
The
southbound Solberg attempted to avoid the collision by steering toward
the northbound lane, but Calvert made a sharp correction and the
vehicles collided in the southbound lane, near the center of the road,
Blood said.
He said both vehicles had been going about 60 mph,
which is the speed limit, although a witness in a car behind Solberg’s
said Solberg was braking when the vehicles hit almost squarely head-on.
There was no immediate indication that alcohol was involved, Blood said.
“It could have been a momentary lapse, and she just drifted over,” he said."
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