AUBURN, Wash. — One person is dead and three more are injured after a car crashed into a home in Auburn early Wednesday morning.
Around 2:45 a.m., Auburn police responded to a vehicle collision into a home at the 4000 block of Auburn Way South. The vehicle, a GMC truck, was traveling eastbound when it lost control and crashed, ejecting multiple occupants from the car.
One person was found dead at the scene and three others were critically injured according to Auburn police. KING 5 was told speed was a factor in the crash.
“Most of our collisions that happened and crashes that happen, there’s one of three things or maybe all three that play a factor. That’s speed, that’s driving under the influence of either alcohol or drugs or distracted driving," said Kolby Crossley, public information officer for Auburn police. "And we do believe that speed was a factor."
Auburn police have not determined how fast the driver was going and they're still investigating who the driver was at the time of the crash.
No one in the home at the time was injured.
According to WSDOT's crash data portal, last year there were five crashes in the area where Wednesday's crash happened. Of those five crashes, one resulted in a serious injury.
Sean Peterson has been living along Auburn Way South, right across the street from where the crash happened, for six years.
“I hear people just flying past here,” Peterson said.
He said he's seen a lot of close calls and believes that the speed limit should be lowered.