A suspected impaired driver was hospitalized after his car slid into another vehicle, leading to a three-car crash on Interstate 205 near Fourth Plain Boulevard on Sunday evening.
According to the Washington State Patrol, David A. Cook, 64, of Vancouver was hurt when merging onto Interstate 205 northbound from state Highway 500 around 5:30 p.m.
Cook lost control on the wet road, troopers said, and ended up perpendicular to the flow of northbound traffic on the interstate.
A pickup driver — Kenneth R. Lowe Jr., 51, of Kalama — struck the driver’s side door of Cook’s car.