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Troopers were investigating a crash involving a motorcycle on southbound I-5 Thursday afternoon. The motorcyclist was thrown onto the northbound shoulder at 12:37 p.m., just north of the Snohomish River near Everett. Police believe the man, 30, of Selah, somehow lost control of his motorcycle. Witnesses reported seeing the man making abrupt lane changes for about 10 miles before the crash. The man was taken to a local hospital with a foot injury. He is under investigation for speeding and reckless driving.
A newly purchased, $80,000 transport van used by the Veteran’s Administration to transport disabled vets was one of two vehicles totaled in a crash on I-5 Saturday morning.
All southbound lanes were closed at 272nd because of the crash.
Witnesses said the driver of a blue SUV may have tried to pass on the right shoulder at a high rate of speed, causing the collision.
The State Patrol said the driver of the VA van had just dropped someone off prior to the collision. Nobody was seriously hurt in the collision.
A Ridgefield man caused a second crash after he allegedly tried to film the scene of a fatal crash while he was driving. Devin Braithwaite, 19, was driving a 2011 Dodge Charger south on Interstate 5 near the Northeast 179th Street Friday night when he approached the scene of an earlier fatal crash. Earlier in the evening, Sergey A. Bondarchuk, 18, of Vancouver lost control of a 1997 Acura sedan and struck a tree. He was declared dead at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. While passing the scene, Braithwaite tried to record the scene with his cell phone.
A Vancouver man was killed late Friday in a single-car accident on Interstate 5 north of Vancouver, according to the Washington State Patrol. The WSP reported that Sergey A. Bondarchuk, 18, was driving a 1997 Acura sedan south on I-5 at 11:27 p.m. when he lost control while attempting to change lanes. The Acura went off the the freeway just north of Northeast 179th Street and struck a tree. Bondarchuk was declared dead at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, the WSP reported.
A Washington State Patrol trooper was taken to the hospital for minor injuries after a five-car collision on the slick roads of Interstate 5 Tuesday morning. Just before 6 a.m., the trooper was northbound on I-5 responding to a report of a car in the median on the left side of the freeway just south of Bow Hill Road. When the trooper pulled her vehicle over to the right shoulder to assist, she noticed a second vehicle in the ditch on the right side. A third vehicle then slid and crashed into the second one.
A traffic accident in the southbound lanes of Interstate-5 near Northgate has caused a seven-mile backup from Northgate all the way to Interstate-405, according to the state Department of Transportation. The incident has made the Everett to Seattle commute more than an hour and a half. The Transportation Department recommends taking State Route 99 to avoid the traffic jam, which at 8:30 a.m. was blocking three lanes.