Update: Three Teens Taken to Hospitals After Thursday Crash Involving Subaru Impreza in Sammamish

Excessive speed by the driver of a 2007 Subaru Impreza likely contributed to a crash in Sammamish early Thursday in which three area teenagers were rushed to hospitals, the King County Sheriff's Office reported.

The crash involved a 16-year-old Sammamish boy, who was in the backseat of the car.

Eastside Fire & Rescue crews extricated the driver and the Sammamish boy from the vehicle after it went through a fence and became pinned against a tree at Southeast 25th Way and Beaver Lake Way Southeast, agency spokeswoman Josie Williams said.

Emergency crews received the call for help around 12:30 a.m. An 18-year-old man from Fall City was driving the car, King County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said.

The other passenger is the 18-year-old brother of the driver, Urquhart said. The 18-year-old passenger was already outside the car when fire crews arrived. It appeared that he had broken bones, Williams said.

One teenager, Williams added, was in serious condition. Urquhart said one of the other teenagers might also have been in serious condition. Medics took the driver and passengers to either Harborview Medical Center in Seattle or Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.

The teenagers did not suffer life-threatening injuries, Urquhart said, and investigators do not believe that alcohol contributed to the crash.

The crash occurred in the Beaver Lake Estates area of Sammamish. The residential area has a speed limit of 25 mph. Neighborhood streets have slight curves.

On Thursday, after the accident, residents drove by to look at the damage or stood nearby to survey the broken wooden fence, skid marks and tracks up the curb and through the grass.

Debris sat near the tree, which had bark stripped from it. Urquhart said the car was traveling north on Beaver Lake Way Southeast when the driver lost control and went off the street. The wooden fence served as the barrier between the backyard of a house and the street.

KOMO News responded to the scene right after the incident and has this report.

Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was originally posted and indicates the direction that the car was traveling when the driver lost control. Also, on Friday, Urquhart said it will take some time before the full investigation is complete.