Officers are investigating after a terrible crash in Seattle on a freeway off-ramp from Highway 99 killed one person and left three others hurt.

Just after 10:00 p.m. Saturday, police said a 16-year-old girl was behind the wheel of a vehicle exiting southbound State Route 99 (SR 99) onto the ramp that drops down to Harbor Island.

Investigators don’t know exactly why, but said the vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier, and then the car went flying off the ramp. They say it plunged 80 feet to the ground, landing upside down on East Marginal Way.

“The vehicle had exited southbound SR 99 at Harbor Avenue and struck the ramp barrier and then plunged about 80 feet to the street below,” Seattle Police Department (SPD) Detective Brian Pritchard said.

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