Two dead and two seriously injured in North Seattle on March 25

SEATTLE — King County prosecutors are expected to file charges Thursday against a driver who crashed into a family in Seattle, killing two people and leaving a mother and baby in critical condition.

Update on Wedgwood DUI crash victim Karina Ulriksen-Schulte and her son: Karina Ulriksen-Schulte heads into a long-awaited surgery and son Elias, also injured in the crash, turns 5 months old.

SEATTLE — The man accused of driving drunk when his pickup truck hit a family crossing a Seattle street is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in King County Superior Court.

Mark W. Mullan has had a lot of second chances in his life.

His ex-wife took him back at least once, withdrawing divorce papers in 2004 to try to make things work. Disillusioned and frightened by his drinking and drugging, she went through with the separation and divorce five years later.

The family involved in a tragic crash this spring in Northeast Seattle has filed $45 million in claims against the city of Seattle for failing to supervise the driver of a truck that hit them while they were out for an afternoon walk. The crash killed a couple and critically injured their daughter-in-law and infant grandson. Filing a claim is the first step toward suing the city for damages, if the family doesn’t settle a claim with the city outside of court.

RUSSIAVILLE, Ind. — Hundreds of mourners filled a north-central Indiana high school for a memorial honoring an Indiana couple struck and killed last month by a suspected drunken driver in Seattle.

SEATTLE – A suspected drunken driver slammed into a family crossing the street in a residential Seattle neighborhood, a crash that critically injured a newborn child and his mother and killed his grandparents, who had recently moved from the Midwest to be near their grandson.

Four months after two Seattle grandparents were killed by an alleged drunk driver in the city’s Wedgwood neighborhood, the city wants to make safety changes to the street where it happened.

Seattle Department of Transportation officials say they are considering safety changes along Northeast 75th street in Seattle's Wedgewood neighborhood. The possible changes come after two people were killed in a suspected DUI accident on March 25th.

Judy and Dennis Schulte drove across the country just a few days ago to be with their son and his family in Seattle.

They'd planned to stay for awhile to help with their new grandson. But on Monday the two died when an alleged drunken driver hit them as they walked in a Seattle neighborhood with their daughter-in-law and new grandson, Elias.

The man whose family was devastated by a crash that propelled state lawmakers to consider tightening state DUI laws says he doesn’t think their final product does enough to address the problem.

SEATTLE — Neighbors and relatives impacted by a deadly crash in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood honored the victims with a walk in their memory on Monday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Dennis and Judith Schulte had just arrived in Seattle from the Midwest, a move they made to be near their newborn grandson. They were killed Monday when a suspected drunken driver slammed into them as they crossed a street during a walk with their grandson and his mother. The crash left the other two family members in critical condition Tuesday.

The infant boy who was critically injured when a pickup slammed into his family in March recently “celebrated his three-month birthday like a champ,” and his mother is also continuing to recover, according to an update posted by the family Tuesday.

SEATTLE – Prosecutors filed vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving charges Thursday against a driver who crashed into a family out for a walk, killing two grandparents and leaving their daughter-in-law and baby grandson in comas.

A pickup truck driver crashed into four pedestrians crossing a Seattle street on Monday, killing two and critically injuring two others - a woman and the infant she was carrying, police said.

An unemployed electrician who killed an Indiana couple and severely injured their daughter-in-law and her newborn son in an auto-pedestrian accident in March has been sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison.

In his first public comments since the March 25 crash that claimed the lives of his parents and severely injured his wife and infant son, Schulte spoke Tuesday about his family’s prognosis, how he’s dealing with the tragedy and his hopes of effecting change in the state’s drunken-driving laws.

A Seattle man with multiple arrests for driving under the influence was charged today with two counts of vehicular homicide in connection with Monday’s crash in Wedgwood that killed two pedestrians and injured two others.

The suspect in the deadly car-versus-pedestrian accident on Monday in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood has a history of traffic violations and a number of DUIs in the past year.

Mark Mullan was sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison for the March crash that killed Judy and Dennis Schulte and critically injured their daughter-in-law and grandson in northeast Seattle

On Tuesday, Dan Schulte spoke with reporters for the first time about the crash that killed his parents and sent his wife and newborn son into critical condition.

SEATTLE — Prosecutors filed vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving charges Thursday against a driver who crashed into a family out for a walk, killing two grandparents and leaving their daughter-in-law and baby grandson in comas.

UPDATE: 9:25 p.m. | The two people who died were a 68-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, according to Seattle police. In the department’s online blog, police spokesman Jeff Kappel says the woman who was carrying the baby is 33, and the baby is 10 days old.

A repeat drunk driver who plowed his pickup truck into a family walking across a Seattle street faces about 18 years in prison at Friday's sentencing.

Dan Schulte, whose wife and newborn son were severely injured in a March 25 crash in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, said this morning both face a “long road ahead,” but he’s hopeful about their recovery. Karina Ulriksen-Schulte and their son Elias suffered traumatic brain injuries in the crash that claimed the lives of Dan Schulte’s parents.

SEATTLE -- A prayer vigil took place Thursday night, not far from the Seattle street corner where a husband and wife were killed on Monday. Pastor Kathy Law of Sand Point Community Methodist Church called Judith and Dennis Schulte, “the salt of the earth.”

SEATTLE -- Seattle Fire Department officials say at least two people are dead and two others, including an infant, are in critical condition after car vs. pedestrian crash at 33rd Avenue NE and 75th Street NE near Eckstein Middle School in Seattle's Wedgewood neighborhood.

For Dan Schulte, the string of guilty pleas uttered Thursday by the repeat drunken driver who killed his parents and left his wife and infant son fighting for their lives provided a measure of relief, but hardly justice.

The Seattle man accused of driving drunk when he struck a family out for an afternoon walk last month, killing two and critically injuring two others, pleaded not guilty Thursday to numerous charges.

SEATTLE — After they were struck by a suspected drunken driver who also killed two of their family members, a pediatric nurse and her newborn son are struggling to survive.

A man who was on probation for a DUI conviction in March when his pickup struck four people in a Wedgwood crosswalk, killing two, pleaded guilty this morning to multiple charges, including two counts of vehicular homicide/DUI.

SEATTLE - A driver suspected of killing two pedestrians and critically injuring a young woman and the infant she was carrying pleaded not guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving.

The driver, Mark W. Mullan, 50, has a long history of DUI arrests and is being held on $2.5 million bail in the deadly crash.

SEATTLE — Retired teachers from Kokomo, Ind., who moved to Seattle last month to witness the birth of their first grandchild have been killed by a suspected drunken driver.

Four members of Dan Schulte's family were hit by a suspected drunk driver at a Wedgwood intersection last March. His parents died, his wife and baby son were critically hurt. Complaints rolled in from the neighborhood that Northeast 75th Street wasn't safe.