Seven drivers wreck in Friday snowstorm

Washington State Patrol Troopers were called out Friday to seven reportable accidents as a winter storm hit the area late in the afternoon. The storm made driving hazardous during a high-volume traffic flow related to Dads’ weekend festivities on the WSU campus and traffic was reported backed up bumper-to-bumper between Colfax and Pullman.

Steven A. Baldwin, 17, Auburn, was taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital for treatment of head and neck injuries sustained in a rollover accident just south of Colfax at 11:44 p.m. Friday.

According to the WSP report, Michael A. Baldwin, 52, Auburn, was driving a 2005 Ford Expedition south at 11:44 p.m. and lost control on the ice-covered highway .73 miles south of Colfax. The Expedition went into the ditch on the southbound side of the highway and rolled.

Chadwick Arnold, 22, Kennewick, was unhurt when the 1999 Ford Explorer he was driving went off Highway 195 11 miles south of Colfax and rolled on its top at about 3:10 p.m. Chadwick was driving north and lost control in snow and slush conditions.

Donald Porter, 57, Lewiston, sustained cuts when he lost control of a 1999 GMC Safari on ice on Highway 195 about two miles south of Uniontown at 7:35 a.m. Nov. 12. The Safari rolled on its top after going into the northbound ditch.