AUBURN, Wash.  — A Whitefish woman died Thursday morning in a wrong-way highway accident in Auburn.

Nancy L. Clark, 60, died at the scene on State Route 18 after colliding with two cars heading the opposite direction.  

The Washington State Patrol said Clark drove her 1997 Honda Civic east in the westbound lanes and hit a car. She kept going until she hit a second car, a 2011 Toyota Avalon. That driver, a 54-year-old Federal Way, Washington, man, was injured and taken to St. Francis Hospital.

The accident happened at 12:30 a.m. Thursday and closed the road for about four hours at the Green River Bridge.

Witnesses told KOMO News that they could see the two drivers trying to avoid one another with their headlights swerving across the lanes.

Craig Anderson, the first witness on the scene, told KOMO he first checked on the man who got hit and saw that he was alive. He was on the phone with a 911 operator as he checked the other car.

“Dispatch was trying to find out if anyone inside the vehicle was alive, so I ended up shattering the two driver side windows — checked for a pulse. I didn’t feel a pulse,” he said. “And so I told everyone else around to just kind of back away and not take pictures.”

Troopers say they don’t believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.