Ridgefield man among two dead in I-5 crash

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A Ridgefield man died of his injuries sustained in a Dec. 18 three-vehicle crash on Interstate 5, according to the Washington State Patrol.

In a Dec. 27 incident memo, WSP reported that Jorge Santiago-Joaquin, 21, died at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. He, alongside Ying Ting, 36, of Portland, died as a result of the Dec. 18 crash when a vehicle driven by Derek Cunningham, 33, of Vancouver, hit Ting’s disabled vehicle at the southbound exit on I-5 at 78th Street.

According to the memo, Santiago-Joaquin, the passenger in the vehicle driven by Kiki Salazar, 20, of Milwaukie, had stopped on the shoulder to assist Ting, whose vehicle was stopped on the exit blocking the road. 



Cunningham was taking the exit and struck Ting’s vehicle, which was then pushed into Salazar’s car. Ting, Salazar, and Santiago-Joaquin were between the vehicles at the time, and were slammed into Salazar’s vehicle, according to the memo.

Ting died at the scene of the accident, while Cunningham, Salazar and Santiago-Jaoquin were all taken to PeaceHealth, where Santiago-Joauquin later died. Drugs and alcohol are believed to be a factor in the crash, according to the memo, and Cunningham faces charges in Clark County Superior Court.