Airway Heights driver killed

SPOKANE – An Airway Heights was killed in a late-night crash Sunday, May 14.

At press time, the 26-year-old man’s name was being withheld pending notification of kin.

The crash occurred at 11:48 p.m. on State Highway 291, near Seven Mile Road, the Washington State Patrol reported.

The driver was northbound on the highway in a 2017 Dodge Charger at a “high rate of speed” when he failed to negotiate a curve, the patrol said. His vehicle went off the roadway and hit a tree.

Both the driver and his passenger, Serjay J. Firsov, 27, of Nine Mile Falls, were ejected from the vehicle even though both...