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Around 4am Monday, a minivan carrying 7 people rolled over and crashed East of Burbank, killing an 18-year-old passenger.

The Grant County Sheriff's office reports that around 4:30am, a multi-car crash has claimed the lives of at least 3 people.

Thursday afternoon, around 1pm, and for the rest of the afternoon, traffic was diverted to one lane over the Blue Bridge Northbound.

DISCLAIMER! We don't actually advocate driving in that manner. Nor do we suggest YOU do.  But this is just a fun, fanciful pipe dream.  Perhaps if we had the Autobahn. Needless to say, we did a little magic to simulate what it would be like to leave Pasco, drive over the Blue Bridge, and head West at that speed...

We all need to realize we are going to be 'stuck' with the Highway 240-Columbia Drive roundabout near the Blue Bridge until somebody can find the hundreds of millions of dollars to completely renovate the area. But until then the Washington State Department of Transportation says, it's driver error that causes the bulk of the accidents.

The investigation shows no foul play, but a tragic story nonetheless.

Tuesday evening, three people died in a multi-car crash on I-82, about a mile from the Clearwater Exit near Kennewick.

Oregon Department of Transportation workers came across a grisly discovery Thursday, but actually may have helped solve a case of a missing person.

In his defense, it was dark, and an airplane is not something you're going to be looking for on the highway. But, he did leave the scene of an accident.

Many people had never seen this happen, but apparently in other parts of the country that experience extreme heat, it does.