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Two people were killed when their car veered off a Seattle roadway and rolled, police reported. The crash occurred shortly before 3 a.m. today, when a Ford Mustang convertible traveling north on Lakeview Avenue East, lost control and left the road, a Seattle police spokeswoman reported on the department’s website. The Mustang went sideways and hit a fire hydrant, which caused it to roll onto its roof, Witt said. Seattle fire personnel treated the car’s three occupants, pronouncing the driver and a passenger dead at the scene.
A 69-year-old pedestrian hit by a car in Seattle’s Fairmount Park Neighborhood Sunday night has died. About 9:15 p.m., a Ford sedan was traveling northbound on 35th Avenue Southwest. As the Ford entered the intersection of Southwest Graham Street, the Ford struck a pedestrian, police said. The man suffered life-threatening injuries but was conscious and alert when medics arrived. He was transported to Harborview Medical Center where he died from his injuries a short time later. More than four hours after the crash occurred investigators were still working the scene.
The driver of an SUV who crashed into a pole in Seattle’s Rainier Valley Sunday night has been arrested on vehicular assault charges. The collision occurred at Rainier Avenue South and South Willow Street shortly after 9 p.m., where a SUV with a driver and three passengers had collided with a telephone pole at a high rate of speed. The driver, a 27-year-old man, had a broken leg. One passenger, who was ejected from the back seat, had serious injuries. Another passenger had minor injuries from the crash.
Police say a box truck that started rolling downhill as its driver was loading it smacked into five parked cars in a Seattle neighborhood.
The truck driver was injured as he jumped from the back of the truck. A Seattle Fire Dept. spokesperson says he was taken to a hospital with an ankle injury.
No one else was hurt Monday.
Witnesses told police the trouble started as the driver was loading donated goods into the back of the 24-foot truck.
Witnesses say it appears the truck’s brakes failed.
A Seattle police officer was seriously injured shortly before 9 a.m. today when his motorcycle and a car collided in the SoDo area.
Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore said the officer was thrown about 10 to 15 feet after the collision at Fourth Avenue South and South Lander Street.
The officer, a 57-year-old man, suffered a fracture, Moore said. He was reported alert and oriented and was being taken to Harborview Medical Center.
A 44-year-old man died after he lost control of his motorcycle and slammed into a guard rail on the Michigan Street off ramp on southbound Interstate 5 early Sunday.
According to the Washington State Patrol, the man was traveling at a high-rate of speed when he struck the barrier and was thrown from his black 1987 Honda.
The accident happened at 1:20 a.m. The patrol said the off ramp was closed for two-and-a-half hours.
A Lake Stevens woman was booked into the King County Jail early Sunday after a wrong-way crash on I-5. It happened just before 12:30 a.m. on northbound I-5 at Northeast 145th Street. The Washington State Patrol stated that the 22-year-old driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes and hit a Ford Edge. One of the three people in the Edge was injured and taken to Harborview Medical Center. The driver of the F-150 and her passenger, a 24-year-old Mukilteo woman, were not hurt.
The Washington State Patrol is reporting that a motorcycle driver was killed in an accident on I-5 near Southcenter on Sunday evening, around 5:47 p.m. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger on the motorcycle was taken to Harborview and is in stable condition. Investigators suspect alcohol was a factor.
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