Fatal Crash in South Kitsap

Update June 4
General Assignment reporter covered the funeral of Ashlee Moore, the victim of the fatal crash over Memorial Day weekend. Binion wrote about the promising young woman who touched many lives for the Kitsap Sun June3. Click here to access the story.

I received a couple of e-mails about a fatal crash that took place early Sunday morning. For reasons yet unclear, this information did not run on the Web or in today’s paper. Reader Judi Edwards described a roadside memorial to the victim. “Flowers were placed at the site with candles glowing late in to the night last night. As I drove past at 11:30 PM Sunday night there were people standing at the site,” she wrote.

Here’s the information from state patrol.

Crash Kills 19-year-old PO Woman

By JOSH FARLEY, jfarley@kitsapsun.com
May 29, 2007

SOUTH KITSAP
An early morning crash Sunday killed a 19-year-old Port Orchard woman on SE
Sedgwick Road, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Just after midnight, Ashlee S. Moore was driving a 2000 Nissan Sentra west
on the road, also known as Highway 160, when she crossed the center line to
pass a 1993 Dodge Intrepid, driven by a California woman.

She crossed the eastbound lane of traffic as well, leaving the road and
striking a power pole near the highway’s intersection with Bethel Road,
troopers said.

Moore died at the scene. The California woman was uninjured.

Troopers continue their investigation of the accident. Both women were
wearing seat belts, and it is not known if alcohol or drugs were involved in
the crash, the state patrol said.