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One person killed after car crashed into Columbia neighborhood home

One person killed after car crashed into Columbia neighborhood home

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BELLINGHAM, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – One person was killed after a car crashed into a house in Bellingham’s Columbia neighborhood over the weekend.

Bellingham Police Lt. Claudia Murphy tells My Bellingham Now that officers were called to a single car crash on Elm Street around 11:20 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21. Police arrived to find that the car had gone through the walls of a house.

The driver, who was identified by the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office as a 21-year-old man, was the sole occupant of the car and didn’t survive the crash.

The house suffered extensive damage, though no one inside it was injured.

Murphy says the cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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