Two dead, three injured after collision on Highway 3

A Kent mother and her two children were taken to a Bremerton hospital late Saturday after a collision on Highway 3 killed both the woman's husband and the man driving the vehicle that struck the family's Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to the Poulsbo Fire Department.

The Kent family had spent the day in Victoria, B.C. and were on their way home, driving south on Highway 3, according to a fire department news release.

They were just south of the Hood Canal Bridge when a man, driving north in a Jeep Cherokee, collided with their vehicle at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday, the release said.

Both men were declared dead at the scene. Their names and ages, along with the second man's hometown, were not immediately known.

An 11-year-old boy suffered critical injuries while his mother and 4-year-old sister suffered serious injuries, the release says. All three were taken to Bremerton's Harrison Hospital.

Both lanes of Highway 3 at Pioneer Hill Road, two miles north of Poulsbo, were closed while the State Patrol investigated the collision, according to the state Department of Transportation. The highway reopened at 5:30 a.m. today.