Two injured in Mattawa area accident

MATTAWA — Two people were transported to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland after the semi one of them was driving ran off the road and rolled off the highway about 12 miles south of Mattawa Thursday morning.

Brandi Miller, 27, San Antonio, Texas, was driving south on State Route 243 about 7 a.m. when she ran her truck off the road, according to a press memo from the Washington State Patrol. She overcorrected and the truck rolled, the memo said.

Both Miller and her passenger, Zechariah Tuttle, 37, Springfield, Missouri, were injured. Miller was wearing a seatbelt, but Tuttle was not, the memo said.

Miller was charged with driving with the truck’s wheels off the roadway.