Fundraiser For Shoreline Teen Killed In Crash

SHORELINE, WA — The friends of an 18-year-old Shoreline woman who died in a car crash this week have started a fundraiser to pay for costs related to the teen's funeral and memorial ceremony.

Lauren Bianco died after she crashed into a wooded area near Fremont Avenue and North 185th Street sometime after midnight on Tuesday. She was found at around 5 a.m. by a passerby who noticed a damaged fence.

Bianco had just graduated from Shorewood High School in June, and was set to begin studying journalism at Washington State University in the fall.

"Lauren was fiercely determined, confident, strong-willed, and never afraid to speak her mind," a friend of Bianco wrote on a GoFundMe fundraiser page.