Glenn Highway wreck sends 2 to hospital, one to jail

Members of the Palmer Fire Department and Mat-Su Borough EMS tend to one of two people injured Saturday in a head on collision on the Glenn Highway near Fox Run RV Park.

Saturday Around 7 p.m. at Mile 38 of the Glenn Highway, Tammy Dupree, 45, was in a 1998 Hyundai Accent trying to turn left from the northbound lane into Fox Run RV Park when another vehicle driven by Stephanie S. Smith, 38, of Anchorage also heading north, tried to manuever around Dupree's vehicle on the left side.

Smith's vehicle lost control on the shoulder as it tried to pass and ended up swerving across the northbound lane into southbound traffic colliding head-on with a white Ford F-150 pickup driven by Austin Makowski, 20, of Anchorage, who was not hurt. Dupree then fled the scene into Fox Run RV Park, according to eye witnesses.

Troopers on scene tracked Dupree down and issued her a sobriety test, then arrested her and placed her in a trooper vehicle. She was booked at Mat-Su Pretrial on a felony charge of driving under the influence, felony refusal to take a DUI test, driving without a license, and misuse of license plates.

Smith and her passenger, Duane Morfield, 49, were seriously injured and had to be extricated. They were were transported to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center.

The Glenn Highway between Palmer and the Parks Highway interchange was down to one lane until about 10:15 p.m., Saturday, according to trooper spokesperson Beth Ipsen.