Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Jade Ellsworth to appear in court Oct. 8
HARRINGTON — A Palouse woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in the Friday, June 7, deaths of three Davenport men.
A Lincoln County Superior Court summons shows Jade A. Ellsworth of Palouse is being formally charged with one count of vehicular homicide. Ellsworth is not currently in jail.
Court records show Ellsworth did not have a valid drivers license at the time of the fatal crash..
She is ordered to appear in court before Judge Jeffrey S. Barkdull at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Court records show she is accused of being responsible for the deaths of Alan Kysar, 26, Braedon Efraimson, 26, and Blake Wilson, 24, all of Davenport.
All three men were graduates of Davenport High School. Newspaper archives and School District administration indicate Efraimson graduated in 2016, Kysar in 2017 and Wilson in 2018.
According to court records, all three died in the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Harrington-Tokio Road and Mohler Road on June 7.
Records show Ellsworth was westbound in her 2007 Honda Pilot on Mohler Road when she failed to stop for a stop sign and hit the 2002 Honda Civic containing Kysar, Efraimson and Wilson.
The crash occurred about 8:30 p.m.
Ellsworth told responding deputies she was driving at about 65 mph and didn’t see the stop sign and Harrington-Tokio Road because the sun was in her eyes, court records show. The posted speed limit is 50 mph.
During the subsequent investigation, Ellsworth told deputies she was going to Lake Chelan, following a route laid out on her phone’s GPS.
Neither drugs nor alcohol were factors in the crash, and all three deceased men are believed to have been wearing seat belts, records show. Ellsworth, too, was wearing a seatbelt.
Roger Harnack is the owner/publisher of Free Press Publishing. Having grown up Benton City, Roger is an award-winning journalist, photographer, editor and publisher. He's one of only two editorial/commentary writers from Washington state to ever receive the international Golden Quill. Roger is dedicated to the preservation of local media, and the voice it retains for Eastern Washington.
Reader Comments(0)