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multiple-car crash blocked all westbound lanes of SR 16 at C in Tacoma on Sunday morning.
The State Patrol said five vehicles were involved. One vehicle was the first car to spin out on ice and a chain reaction of four other vehicle collisions started.
Troopers say there were injuries but details were not known.
The State Patrol said via Twitter that icy conditions were a factor but not the cause of the pile-up.
“The person behind the wheel causes the collision. Adjust your driving 4 conditions,” WSP said.
A 51-year-old man died after being hit by a car in the Love Field area early Sunday morning, police said.
The man, whose name was not released, was trying to cross the street at the 6600 block of Harry Hines Boulevard. One car, driving in the middle lane, swerved to the left to avoid the man, but clipped his left side.
A car in the left lane then collided with the other car and fled from the crash scene.
The person in the car that hit the man got out and ran away without stopping to render aid, police said.
A grieving family is asking for the public's help to find the driver who struck and killed a father of three moments after he prepared Thanksgiving dinner at their home in San Bernardino County.
Lorenzo Rodriguez, 42, was outside his home on Locust Avenue in Bloomington on Sunday when a dark pickup truck swerved onto the curb and struck him, police said.
According to the family, Rodriguez was taking out the trash from the traditional tamales the family prepares for Thanksgiving.
The victim's son, Arturo, said he found him on the ground 30 yards away from the home.
Two people were killed in a one-car accident Sunday night in Wright County near Renwick. The accident claimed the lives of both the driver and a passenger. Reportedly an eastbound 2001 Volkswagen Jetta driven by 43-year-old Jaimes Reyes Santos of Goodell lost control on Wright County Road C-26.
The car left the roadway,striking a utility pole, rolled over and landed in a soybean field. Santos and a passenger 50-year-old Armando Romero Soto of Hampton were both pronounced dead at the accident scene. The accident remains under investigation.
Police have released the name of a woman who died in a crash in Fishers early Sunday morning.
The crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 69 near the 204 mile marker.
Fishers Police officers arrived and found the crash involved a 2009 Ford Fusion.
The female driver, identified as 21-year-old Hannah E. Fernung, was pronounced deceased at the scene. A male passenger was taken to IU Health Methodist in critical condition.
Authorities say two are dead, including the hit-and-run driver who left the scene of a minor wreck, sped down the road and caused the second, deadly collision.
Phoenix Police said around 6:45 p.m. Saturday 50-year-old Francisco Sanchez was driving an Expedition northbound on 83rd Avenue at Pomo Street when he crossed the median and collided head-on with a Tahoe driven by 41-year-old Miriam Gonzalez.
Thompson said both drivers died at the scene of the wreck.
Deputies said speed and “using a mobile device” were factors that caused a woman to crash into a trailer full of fresh cut Christmas trees Sunday morning in Estacada.
Around 8 a.m., 22-year-old Danielle Battles of Estacada rear ended the trailer near South Springwater Road and South Eaden Road, said Mark Nikolai with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
Battles was severely injured and taken by Life Flight to Oregon Health & Science University where she was listed in critical condition.
A 50-year-old man is in critical condition at a Spokane hospital after his car hit a wall under an overpass in Spokane Valley on Sunday night. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies suspect the man had been drinking. Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the collision on Argonne Road just south of Trent Avenue. Witnesses said the man was driving south when his car jumped the center median and hit the wall underneath the train overpass on the east side of the road. The man was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown partially out of the front windshield.
Two Sedro-Woolley teenagers were injured in a one-car crash early Sunday on F & S Grade Road near Jones Road. A 16-year-old boy was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer east on F & S Grade Road about 2:45 a.m. when the vehicle left the road, hit a utility pole, rolled over and landed in a ditch, according to a State Patrol report. Skagit County and Sedro Woolley are growing in population, and with this growth comes increases in traffic, congestion, and accidents.