A head-on automobile crash in Lakewood late Friday morning left at least two people seriously injured. According to Lakewood police, the cars collided just after 11 a.m. on Bridgeport Way SW near Seattle Avenue.
Two people who were trapped inside the cars need to be extricated when medics arrived. No word on if there were additional injuries or the extent of the injuries to the two trapped.
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A Marysville woman was hit and killed early Wednesday morning by an apparent hit-and-run driver. There was no information for Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives about the vehicle involved in the death. They spent several hours at the scene after the pedestrian accident, collecting evidence and taking measurements along the road.
A gas can was recovered at the scene by detectives. They also found a motorcycle that was parked south of the scene, on the west side of 34th Avenue NE. Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said that it’s unclear if the motorcycle is connected to the incident. Investigators are asking for the public’s help to locate the driver or in providing details about the hit-and-run accident.
The 56 year old woman was found about 6:40 a.m. by a man driving southbound on I-5, Hover said. The woman was lying in a grassy area near a barbed wire fence between 34th Avenue NE and the freeway. Hover also said that the woman had died at the scene.
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An Auburn man, 22, was arrested today after he allegedly fled the scene of a four-vehicle collision. A 50-year-old woman was killed in the collision, and at least five other people were injured in the auto accident.
The man was driving on A Street Southeast in Auburn when he was involved in a verbal exchange with the male passenger in another car in the next lane. The two cars collided, and the second car veered into the northbound lane into oncoming traffic, colliding with a third car and a pickup.
The woman, 50, who was driving the third car, died at the scene of the Washington Car Accident, said Scott Near, spokesman for the Auburn Police Department. The elderly man who was driving the pickup was unharmed.
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An 18-year-old woman sustained critical injuries in a car accident in downtown Stanwood on Thursday. She was taken to Skagit Valley Hospital.
According to Herald.net, the two-car accident happened near the intersection of 88th Avenue NW and 271st Street NW about 3:30 p.m.
A pickup truck struck the woman’s Mustang convertible. The pickup had been heading south on 88th Avenue NW. The driver of the pickup was uninjured. There were no other injuries, as neither car had any passengers.
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Two separate vehicles hit and killed a 48-year-old man early Sunday morning in a Tacoma intersection. Both vehicles fled the scene after the auto accident and police are looking for the drivers.
Residents near the intersection of 38th and Fawcett say they’ve seen many bad accidents here. They say drivers frequently drive way too fast
Shortly before 2 a.m., Christy Lawson heard a noise outside her house.
“I heard kind of what I thought was like a thumping. I thought it was like a door closing, a car or a door or something,” she said. She realized something serious had happened when she saw police lights through the window a few minutes later.
“Lights and cops and unfortunately there was a man laying on the ground being treated by the ambulance,” she said.
“My neighbor’s dog was hit not too long ago. I’ve seen many dogs and animals hit. Killed. Our neighbor up the street got hit by a car, he lived, just earlier this year. It happens all the time,” said Lindsey Spaulding.
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A jury in Tennessee awarded the family of a young mother more than $1 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Ginger Williams, 34 and suffering from end-stage renal disease, died one day after doctors released her from the emergency room at Maury Regional Hospital. According to her mother, doctors and the hospital neglected to give her daughter a blood test that would have detected an elevated, deadly potassium level. The jury ruled that Williams died after a break-down in communication kept her from getting proper medical care.
Doris Howell and her grandson were awarded $1.25 million.
Attorneys for the prosecution worked for three years to prove two doctors, two nurses and the hospital didn’t give the blood test to detect her elevated potassium level.
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Approximately a dozen bus riders were taken to area hospitals after a Metro bus accident on Pacific Highway South on Wednesday. Afternoon traffic was snarled near the Kent-Des Moines interchange.
There did not appear to be any critical injuries suffered in the Seattle Auto Accident that occurred shortly before 2 p.m, said Des Moines police and officials with King County Metro Transit.
According to Metro spokeswoman Linda Thielke, the Route 174 bus was driving southbound in the extreme right-hand lane on Pacific Highway South when a vehicle in the lane to the left of the bus cut in front of the bus in an attempt to make a right-hand turn into a parking lot. Theilke also said there was no major damage to the bus.
A train and semi-truck collided in Marysville early Monday. Minor injuries occurred when the train derailed.
At approximately 6 a.m., the Seattle truck accident occurred around 130th and State streets. The driver of the semi-truck suffered some minor injuries, said Marysville Fire Department Battalion Chief Scott Goodale. As a precaution, he was transported to Providence Everett Medical Center’s Colby Campus. None of the train crew suffered injuries.
According to King5.com, two train engines were derailed, but the rest of the train still on the track. . Marysville Fire Department crews were at the scene investigating the accident, where debris from the train was strewn about 500 yards along the track.
The streets of King County will see some extra patrol cars in search of drunken drivers this weekend.
X-52, which is the nickname of the State Patrol-sponsored program, is part of a statewide effort to catch and stop people from drinking and driving. Trooper Jeff Merrill said the patrols will be in North King County, but didn’t to specify where.
By the year 2030, law enforcement across the state are trying to eliminate all Seattle auto accident deaths. They are hopeful that the X-52 emphasis will be helpful with this goal, Merrill said.
A Kirkland woman, Kelly Hansen, claims she lost her job as chaplain at Children’s Hospital in Seattle because of her years of service as a National Guard chaplain. She was required to drill for a weekend and take time off work.
“The first day she came back to work after her drill weekend she was called into her supervisor’s office and terminated,” said James Beck, her lawyer.
Hansen claims in the lawsuit she filed Thursday in Seattle Federal Court, that she was fired because Children’s Hospital knew that her unit was on alert and she would be leaving for a 14-month deployment to Iraq.
According to King5.com, state and federal Worker’s compensation laws require businesses to hold jobs for employees serving the Guard and Reserves, and companies that don’t can face stiff penalties.
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