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A driver has been ticketed after a utility worker in Kenosha County was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle while flagging traffic, the sheriff's office said Wednesday.
Mary Meyers-Nelson, 73, of Silver Lake was cited for inattentive driving for the accident that injured James Harmon, 46, of Carpentersville, Ill., according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
A 26-year-old woman was hospitalized with a head injury after she was struck by a car in downtown Seattle last night. The woman was crossing the street at the intersection of Denny Way and Dexter Avenue around 7:30 p.m. when she was struck by a Nissan Pathfinder. The SUV driver was evaluated by a drug recognition expert and he did not appear to be impaired, a police spokeswoman wrote in a news release. The pedestrian, who has not been identified, was taken to Harborview Medical Center with what police are calling a potentially life-threatening injury.
A helicopter airlifted a 23-year-old man to St. Joseph Hospital Tuesday afternoon when a Jeep crashed about 200 feet over an embankment near the Mt. Baker Ski Area. The driver, Taylor Armstrong, 23, over-corrected the Jeep at a left curve in the road, about a mile from the nearest lodge, while coming down from the mountain around 3:35 p.m. One of the passengers, Paul Davis,23, from Normandy Park, didn't have a seatbelt on and was thrown from the Jeep about halfway down. He was airlifted to the Bellingham hospital.