Seattle Injury Blog

Two women were injured, and one man died on Sunday in a Seattle Auto Accident when a sports car hit a sedan in the 2500 block of Westlake Avenue North in Seattle.

Mark Jamieson, Seattle police spokesman, said that police were called to the area right before 5pm. A head-on automobile crash had occurred, involving a Porsche convertible and a Ford Taurus.

The driver of the Porsche convertible was pronounced dead at the scene. Both the woman passenger of the Porsche, and the woman driving the Taurus, were hospitalized with critical injuries.

A one-car crash left a young couple in Renton dead Tuesday night, and police said speed is likely to blame.

A 22-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend, both from Renton, were driving on the 11200 block of Southeast 162nd Street shortly after 10 p.m. “at a speed greater than the posted 25 miles per hour,” said police.

The man lost control of the SUV he was driving, and drove into a drainage ditch, flipped and struck a concrete retaining wall. According to Seattletimes.com, the man and woman were pronounced dead at the scene.

A crash killed a 30-year-old Kirkland man early this morning who lost control of his car on Avondale Road Northeast, and struck several trees and landed on the side of the road. Police said that speed, and alcohol, were definitely to blame for the seattle automobile accidents.

According to investigators, the man was driving more than 100 miles an hour and not wearing a seat belt. He was driving south on Avondale shortly before 3 a.m., when nearby residents heard a crash and called 911, police said.

Jim Bove, Police department spokesman, said the white Cadillac finally stopped on the east side of Avondale Road along Bear Creek, facing the northbound lanes. Before coming to a rest, it had sheared off several trees and the impact of the car accident left it ripped into sections.

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Two Pacific Lutheran University students died in a fiery car crash near Brewster, in Eastern Washington, Friday night. The two were also close friends.

The driver, from Tonasket, Washington, swerved and hit another car head. His twin brother, who is a student at the University of Puget Sound, was critically injured in the accident.

The driver who died was an offensive lineman for PLU. Denham was from Bend, Ore.

An automobile accident that blocked 132nd street near Mill creek left a seriously injured teen trapped in the wreckage of a car for nearly an hour Tuesday.

The cause of the three-car crash is still being determined, Mill Creek police spokeswoman Robin Swanson said.

According to officials, the accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. when a red SUV and a black minivan collided head-on. A third car then became involved in the pileup.

“It was almost like a bomb,” said Courtney Norkin, 21, a barista at Buffalo Espresso, located opposite the crash scene. She said she turned away from making coffee drinks and saw the air bags explode inside the cars.

“It was really scary. I’ve never actually witnessed an accident like that,” she said. “It was intense.”

Snohomish County Fire District 7 Battalion Chief Ralph Provenzano said that five people were hurt, including the 17-year-old boy, who was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle by helicopter with what appeared to be multiple broken bones. The other Washington car accident injuries seemed to be minor.
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A man and a woman from Lakewood were killed and three others injured when a Ferrari hit a shuttle bus in an auto accident in Lakewood. The two people in the Ferrari were killed in the crash.

Lt. Dave Guttu, of the Lakewood police, said the driver and passenger in the Ferrari died at the scene of the automobile accident on Sunday afternoon.

According to local news reports, the driver and two of the passengers in the Transpro shuttle were injured. They were then taken to local hospitals for treatment. Their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, said Guttu.
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According to Seattletimes.com, the State of Washington has agreed to pay $850,000 to the estate of a woman who died four years ago in a fatal traffic collision with a man who was on Department of Corrections (DOC) community supervision.

Seattle police say that Gloria Daquep, 55, was killed April 24th, 2004, when Charles W. Roberson III crossed the center line of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South in Seattle and collided with her car. Roberson’s blood-alcohol level was double the 0.08 percent limit for legal intoxication at the time of the crash.

Police also say that just before hitting Daquep, Roberson was involved in a separate hit-and-run accident with a different car.

Roberson apparently had a history of driving offenses. In this Seattle Auto accident, he was seriously injured and was taken to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center. He was later convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to nine years at McNeil Island Corrections Center.
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A two-car collision killed a man and injured another Monday afternoon in Redmond. Rain and wet conditions likely contributed to this Washignton state highway accident.

The driver of a Honda was driving west on Highway 202 at Sahalee Way Northeast. According to Keith Trowbridge, State Patrol spokesman, he then drove into standing water and lost control of his car.

Veering into oncoming traffic, the Honda then struck a Chevrolet Silverado pickup, Trowbridge said.
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