One person was treated for injuries from a two-car accident that happened Thursday morning, June 9, on State Highway 202 near Fall City.

A Snoqualmie woman was injured who was driving westbound on the highway when she swerved to avoid an oncoming minivan that had crossed into her lane.

The 17 year-old driver of the eastbound vehicle and his 4-year-old brother were both uninjured.

Although there were no witnesses to the accident, Trooper Jeff Muren of the State Highway Patrol had pieced together the apparent sequence of events. He said the minivan had crossed the center line of the road and crashed into the guardrail, losing its driver’s-side front tire, before swerving back into its lane. The car, meanwhile, swerved into the guardrail to avoid the minivan, then the driver lost control of the car. “It looks like it spun and then once it got into the grass, it flipped,” Muren said.

The car left a trail of glass, plastic, and parts of the back passenger door that was torn off for 100 feet or more from the collision point. Also in its path were a crushed sign and a damaged telephone pole. When it landed, on its roof, the car was facing up the hill, the way it had just come.

“It was a huge noise,” said Terri Sahm, the home-owner whose yard the car landed in. She talked to the driver, who had several cuts and was bleeding from her head. The driver appeared to be lucid and was able to call her husband and ask about the car seat and laptop that had been in the car. She recounted some of the events, but “She doesn’t even remember hitting that pole,” Sahm said.

The minivan driver doesn’t recall much, either. “I dozed off, and went into the other lane, and then I don’t really know what happened,” he said.

The car’s lights and open-door alarm were both still on, so Lt. Jake Koehnen of the Fall City Fire Department looked the car over, trying to find the battery cable to cut. A driver in the stalled traffic rolled down her window to ask if everyone in the accident was OK, and Koehnen assured her they were.

Emergency medical technicians did take the woman by ambulance to Overlake Hospital, which is standard procedure whenever a vehicle’s airbags deploy.

“More than likely, it’s just going to be a precaution,” Muren said.