Lynnwood,WA :3 teens killed in Lynnwood crash identified on July, Thursday 27th 2017

The three high-school students killed in an early-morning crash in Lynnwood on Wednesday have been identified by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The victims are Landon M. Staley, 16, of Everett; Travin K. Nelson-Phongphiou, 16, of Everett; and Mikayla Sorenson, 15, of Bothell. The cause of death for each was listed as multiple blunt-force injuries, the medical examiner’s office said.


All three students attended Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek.

A 15-year-old girl who was injured in the crash is a student at Cascade High School in Everett, according to the Everett School District. On Thursday, she was in serious condition in the intensive-care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

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Cari Staley, Landon Staley’s mother, told KOMO that her son was the driver.

He got his driver’s license only two months ago and sneaked out of the house the night of the crash to drive around with his friends, something he’d never done before, she told KOMO.

“We talked about rules and boundaries and why and reasons,” she said.

Court records show Landon Staley, who turned 16 on June 1 and had an intermediate driver’s license, was pulled over July 2 for speeding.

Under state law, drivers under 18 with an intermediate license are not to drive with passengers under age 20 who are not immediate family members for the first six months; for the remaining period of an intermediate license, drivers aren’t to drive with more than three passengers under age 20 who are not immediate family members.

The four teens were driving north in a Kia Sorrento in the 16900 block of Alderwood Mall Parkway around 4 a.m. Wednesday when their vehicle struck the trailer of a parked semitruck and drove underneath it, said a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.



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3 teens killed in Lynnwood crash identified