16-year-old girl seriously injured in collision Monday

ROYAL CITY — A 16-year-old Royal City girl remained hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Tuesday, after she was partially ejected from the car she was riding in as it rolled early Monday near Royal City.

Kyle Foreman, public information officer for the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, said the girl was receiving “advanced care” at Harborview Tuesday morning.

Foreman said Tuesday charges likely would be filed against the driver, a 17-year-old Royal City boy.

The collision occurred at about 4 a.m. Monday on Road 11 Southwest, about 12 miles northwest of Royal City, according to a GCSO social media post.

The driver was traveling east on Road 11 Southwest from Road P Southwest and allegedly dropped his phone. He reached down to retrieve it and swerved off the road, hitting a utility pole and causing the car to roll, the GCSO post said.

The driver apparently took the family vehicle without his parents’ knowledge, the GCSO post said.

The 16-year-old girl was flown to Confluence Health-Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, then to Harborview. The driver and two other passengers in the vehicle, ages 16 and 17, sustained non-life-threatening injuries. All three were taken to Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake.