Being injured in a serious accident is always a shocking and scary experience, and dealing with the aftermath is exhausting and stressful. Accident victims are forced to deal with hospitalization, medical treatments, missed work, and lost income, often while trying to manage pain and disability from their injuries. And then the insurance adjusters start circling. Find out more about accidents and what issues an injured person needs to be aware of by going to this link.
A Spokane man died Sunday night after the car he was riding in on Saturday night hit a ditch along state Highway 211 west of Newport. David Pitts, 56, was a passenger in a car driven by Jeffrey H. Schoeny, 21, of Kapaa, Hawaii. Schoeny was headed south shortly after 8 p.m.
A semi hauling two fuel tankers overturned in Vancouver early Friday morning, spilling fuel into storm drains and into the yard of a nearby apartment complex. The truck crashed at around 1:30 a.m. on Northeast 18th Street at Northeast 119th Street, according the Vancouver Fire Department.
Two people had to be extricated from a vehicle that crashed near Moulton Falls Park on Thursday evening. The crash was reported at 7:35 p.m. at 27781 N.E. Lucia Falls Road. A vehicle reportedly went off the road and hit a power pole, knocking down power lines.
Two people are dead after a crash that happened on Big Hanaford Road in Centralia at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
Troopers arrested a driver for suspicion of DUI Thursday morning after a car crashed into a barrier and flipped upside down on State Route 520. It happened around 2 am. in Clyde Hill east of the floating bridge. The driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
All eastbound lanes of I-90 near North Bend will be closed 8-11 p.m. Thursday night so crews can remove a semi-truck that went off the road and was left dangling off a guardrail. The incident happened just before 5 p.m. near milepost 60 a few miles near Hyak.
Police say a box truck that started rolling downhill as its driver was loading it smacked into five parked cars in a Seattle neighborhood.
An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Portland to Seattle hit and killed a man Sunday night. The man was hit about 9:30 p.m. on the tracks at Second Street Northeast near the Puyallup train station.
Two people were injured Sunday morning after their car fell 100 feet off an embankment in Tacoma. Just after 4 a.m., crews responded to East 35th Street where the car went off the road. A rope rescue team brought a man and woman in their 50s out of the embankment.
A wrong-way driver collided with a Washington State Patrol cruiser on U.S. 195 on Wednesday afternoon. The trooper was attempting to stop the wrong-way driver near Excelsior Road, 3 miles south of Spokane shortly after 2 p.m.
A 47-year-old Vancouver man was killed in a collision on Interstate 205 northbound Wednesday afternoon. The man's wife, who follows scanner traffic with her Twitter account, happened to be live tweeting about the crash as she learned that her own husband was the one who died.
Two people were hurt Tuesday afternoon when a Community Transit bus struck a sport utility vehicle on Highway 99 in Lynnwood. The crash happened just before 4:30 p.m., Lynnwood police said.
