Spangle man died in crash with plow

The driver killed in a fiery crash Tuesday on U.S. Highway 195 south of Hatch Road was identified Wednesday as a 57-year-old Spangle man.

William H. Adsit was headed south on the highway in a 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck when he collided with a snowplow truck that was stopped on the shoulder of the outside lane.

Adsit died at the scene, Washington State Patrol troopers said.

The driver of the plow truck had gotten out of the vehicle to remove a deer carcass from the roadway, troopers said.

Staff reports