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Mother unwittingly live-tweets husband’s fatal crash

A Washington state woman live-tweeted a violent crash that killed her husband on a busy interstate – without knowing he was the victim until the bitter end.

The crash happened about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 205 in Vancouver, according to The Columbian newspaper.

Seconds later, avid Twitter user Caran Johnson – using the handle @scancouver – started tweeting about the wreck

“i hate that section of I205 S. too many on ramps, speeders and too few lanes,” she wrote.

The mom of two is a devoted scanner freak, and would often tweet about police activity.

When investigating cops learned that someone had died in the two-car accident, she expressed her sympathy.

“@Col_cops @wspd5pio omg that is so horrible!!!” Johnson wrote.

But then she started to worry because her hubby, Craig Johnson, 47, travels that same road and was late getting home from work.

“I’m trying not to panic, but my husband left work early and he drives 205 to get home. he’s not answering his phone. and he’s late.”

Her fear mounted as she failed to reach him.

“@KF7PSC well he uses his bluetooth, so he would answer his phone. he also wasn’t feeling good so his work was concerned when he left” she tweeted, adding, “i’m a basketcase.”

She called work to confirm he left – and her terror only grew.

“I just called his work and he was feeling faint when he left work. #panic,” she wrote.

She then asked the state police spokesman, Trooper Will Finn, to describe the vehicles in the crash – but he didn’t know and couldn’t help her at that point

“how long do i wait for him to come home before I call the police?” she wrote. “i just called 911 and they transferred me after I gave them his license number and told me that they will call me back. wtf? and now my kids are home from school …” she wrote in a series of panicky tweets.

She finally got the bad news when cops informed her it was her husband who was killed.

“it’s him. he died,” she wrote about 45 minutes after the accident.

Johnson’s northbound car crossed a grassy median and slammed head-on into a Toyota pickup, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, The Columbian reported. The woman driving the Toyota survived.

Supporters took to Twitter to offer the widow their condolences.

One, April Sturdevant, tweeted Johnson to pass on ”words of comfort,” saying she was at the crash scene and with her husband during his “last breath.”

Finn, the police spokesman, told CNN it was a harrowing ordeal.

“I feel terrible. I still feel terrible,” Finn said. “Our hearts go out to the family. This person was a member of our community and we just lost him.”