Everett Car Crashes into House After Rainstorm
EVERETT — Hail and heavy rain on Monday afternoon contributed to an accident that sent a car crashing into a house porch.
A driver found her windshield wipers not working when a rainstorm hit about 3 p.m. and ran a stop sign at Maple Street and 16th Street, Everett Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Parker said.
Her vehicle struck another car and pushed it into a porch of a nearby house.
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White Swan Man Dies in Rollover Car Accident
A White Swan man was killed in a single-car accident Friday night, when his 2001 Jeep Wrangler rolled over in a field.
Walter Gabriel Manuel, 50, was driving westbound on West Wapato Road about 10:30 p.m. and apparently lost control while making a left turn onto Brownstown Road, according to a news release from the Washington State Patrol.
The State Patrol said the Jeep veered off the roadway onto a field, then rolled over, ejecting Manuel. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
Manuel was pronounced dead at the scene. State Patrol officials said they believe he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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Teen Guilty of Fleeing Scene That Injured Officer
EVERETT — The teenage son of a Snohomish County Superior Court judge confessed Friday to driving drunk and fleeing from a crash that injured an Edmonds police officer last year.
Peter Anthony Lucas, 19, pleaded guilty to running from the scene of an injury accident. That’s a felony. He also pleaded guilty to drunken driving, a gross misdemeanor. He was sentenced to seven months in jail.
Lucas will be able to serve two months on home electronic monitoring on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a pre-med student. Another month was converted to 240 hours of community service. He may be able to serve the remaining four months on work release, according to court documents filed late Friday afternoon.
Lucas is the son of Superior Court Judge Eric Lucas.
Former Snohomish County Prosecutor Janice Ellis requested that Island County Prosecutor Gregory Banks handle the case to avoid a potential appearance of a conflict of interest. King County Superior Court Judge Bruce Hilyer oversaw Friday’s plea and sentencing.
Lucas initially was charged in July with four felonies, including vehicular assault, assault on an officer and attempting to elude police. Prosecutors alleged that Lucas rammed an Edmonds police officer’s patrol car during a pursuit on New Year’s Day, 2009. The officer received substantial injuries to his neck that caused him to be out of work for three months.
The incident began when an Edmonds officer attempted to stop a Honda Civic. The driver stopped in a parking lot, then sped toward the officer’s car, according to court papers.
The impact of the collision stalled the patrol car and injured the officer. The Honda left the scene. A few minutes later another Edmonds officer spotted two men attempting to change a flat tire on a damaged Honda Civic. The officer ordered the men to stop.
Peter Lucas got behind the wheel and tried to ram a police car but instead lost control and crashed, according to court papers. He was subdued with an electric shock from a stun gun.
Lucas earlier had been drinking at a party. He got scared when the officer attempted to stop him, according to his attorney Laura Martin, with the Snohomish County Public Defender’s Association.
He was “scared for his future, for what his parents would do to him for drinking and driving, for how this would affect his schooling. He made a grave mistake.” Martin wrote in court papers.
Lucas had no previous criminal history. An assessment revealed no drug or alcohol addiction, according to court papers.
“Mr. Lucas will forever be a convicted felon,” Martin wrote. “This conviction, in and of itself, will have dire consequences for his future.”
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DUI Suspected in Fatal Everett Car Wreck
Police believe an intoxicated woman driving the wrong direction on Broadway caused a head-on crash Friday that killed two people and left two others with serious injuries.
The accident happened about 9:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Broadway at 41st Street.
Police arrested a woman for investigation of vehicular homicide, drunken driving and vehicular assault, Everett police Sgt. Robert Goetz said.
She was at the wheel of a Nissan Xterra sport utility vehicle when it crashed head-on into a Nissan SX two-door coupe that was carrying four people.
Police believe the woman in the SUV was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of Broadway when the wreck occurred, Goetz said. She apparently was unharmed in the crash.
A woman who was driving the car that the SUV struck died at the scene, as did one of her passengers, a man, Goetz said. Two other passengers, both men, remained hospitalized Saturday with serious injuries, Goetz said.
A passenger in the SUV was treated for injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.
The names and ages of those involved in the accident were not available Saturday.
The southbound freeway entrance to I-5 remained closed for several hours Friday night as detectives gathered evidence.
Impaired driving is the leading cause of traffic deaths in the state, according to the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission. More than a third of fatal crashes that occurred in Snohomish County last year involved drinking and driving, the commission’s data shows.
Last year’s toll includes two Clearview couples killed by a drunken driver on Nov. 29 while they were driving on Highway 9 in Marysville.
Friday’s crash is another tragic reminder that drinking and driving can have horrific consequences, Washington State Patrol trooper Keith Leary said.
“That’s why we are out there every day, trying to get impaired drivers off the road,” he said.
As part of a statewide effort to eliminate traffic deaths, the patrol uses marked and unmarked patrols cars and helicopters to look for impaired drivers on state roads.
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Q. Should I stay in my car after an accident or get out?
A. Remain in the car if you feel dizzy or feel any pain. Do you best to remain calm and avoid changing positions. It is far better to wait for ambulance or EMT than to end up crippled for life. No insurance claim is going to give your mobility back.
If your airbag deployed, there may be some haze in the car, but there is no need to get out of the car hastily unless you see fire or smell smoke. If the car isn’t a safe place to be, get out of the car, and get as far away from any traffic as possible.
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Seattle man killed on Kent’s Benson Highway
A 58-year-old Seattle man was struck and killed by a small pickup truck as he tried to cross the Benson Highway at about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Panther Lake area of unincorporated Kent.
Maximiliano Diaz-Salazar was not in a crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle as he attempted to go from east to west across the northbound lanes near the 22000 block of the five-lane highway, said Dan McDonald, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol.
“The cause of the crash was a pedestrian jumping out in the middle of the road and he didn’t see the car,” McDonald said in a phone interview Thursday.
A 43-year-old Kent woman, the driver of the 2000 Toyota pickup, told the State Patrol that she had no time to react once she saw the man crossing the street, also known as State Route 515 and 108th Avenue Southeast.
This marks the second pedestrian-car accident in the last seven weeks along the similar section of the Benson Highway, where posted speeds are 40 mph. A 22-year-old Kent woman was injured by a car at about 5 a.m. Oct. 27 when she tried to cross in the 22400 block of the highway to catch a bus. The woman was not in a crosswalk.
She was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of serious injuries, and has since been released.
“It’s not illegal but you need to yield the right of way (to a vehicle),” McDonald said about pedestrians crossing a street while not in a crosswalk.
Kent fire officials recommended in the press release that pedestrians should use a crosswalk while crossing any street, especially at night when visibility is reduced.
In the Wednesday night accident, Kent Fire Department and King County Medic One emergency crews found the man lying unconscious and unresponsive in the road and were unable to revive him, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.
The driver told investigators that she saw a sports-utility vehicle in the right lane as she traveled in the left lane and that the man apparently waited for the SUV to pass before he darted out in the road.
Investigators did not know where the man had planned to go as he attempted to cross the highway. There are several bus stops in the area.
It is up the state Department of Transportation to determine whether the Benson Highway needs any safety improvements near where the pedestrian-car accidents occurred, McDonald said.
“There’s a lot that goes into installing a crosswalk,” McDonald said. “You can’t just put one in the middle of a road if it’s one that drivers can’t see very well.”
Jamie Holter, spokeswoman for the state DOT, said traffic officials have looked at the history of accidents along that section of the Benson Highway, but she was still trying to track down traffic planners Thursday to see if there are any proposals to improve pedestrian safety along the street.
That section of the highway will become part of the city of Kent in July because of the Panther Lake annexations approved by voters in November.
“What happens might be up to Kent,” Holter said in a phone interview Thursday morning. “Or maybe if we start something Kent takes it over.”
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2 Injured in SR 2 Crash Near Snohomish
Two people were injured in a collision on State Route 2 on Tuesday evening.
Trooper Keith Leary said a car headed east crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle at 88th Street at approximately 7:36 p.m.
One driver was taken to Providence Hospital – Colby Campus with serious injuries. The other was also taken with non-life threatening injuries, Leary said. Their conditions were not immediately available.
The cause of the crash has not been determined, and the roadway was to be closed for several hours for investigation.
Traffic was being detoured at 88th Street.
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Police: Drunken Driver Causes 6-Car Crash
A Hingham woman was drunk and under the influence of drugs when she triggered a six-car accident on Washington Street and drove in to the front of a tire store, police said.
Hayley Damp kept her foot on the gas pedal even after her SUV crashed into Brilliant Tire at about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, police said. A passer-by saw the tires of her vehicle spinning and smoking and reached in the window to turn the engine off, police said.
Damp, 31, of 98 Kilby St., was taken to Quincy Medical Center after the crash, then brought back to the Quincy police station where she was booked on charges of drunken driving, driving under the influence of drugs and reckless driving.
Patrolman Bruce Tait was the first officer to arrive at the accident scene and wrote in his report that vehicles littered both sides of the road.
Man Dies in Multi Vehicle Seattle Car Crash
A man was killed in a crash on Interstate 5 in south Seattle Sunday shortly after 2:30 a.m., the news tribune has reported.
He was a passenger in a disabled 1996 Ford bus filled with party-goers that was parked on the right shoulder of the freeway at the Boeing Access Road.
He got out of the bus and was attempting to make repairs. A southbound 2002 Ford pickup driven by a 39-year-old California man struck him and the bus. He died at the scene of the accident.
A southbound 2001 Kia Sephia driven by a 37-year-old Federal Way man then struck the pickup from behind.
The drivers of the pickup and the Kia were both transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with injuries. A 50-year-old Federal Way woman who was a passenger in the Kia was also injured and transported to the hospital.
KOMO-TV is reporting that the patrol said two people were critically injured in the accident.
The patrol said the 34-year-old bus driver from Renton was not hurt. Six additional bus passengers were treated for minor injuries.
Two southbound lanes of I-5 were closed after the crash. The accident is under investigation by the patrol for possible criminal charges including vehicular homicide.
The patrol reported that alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash.
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Elk Causes WA Car Accident,
The Washington State Patrol is investigating an accident involving a Lewis County sheriff’s deputy who hit an elk Monday night, King 5 reports. The Washington accident happened on Highway 12 near Packwood.
The deputies vehicle was severely damaged.
The state patrol could only confirm there had been an accident. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office did not give any immediate details Monday night.
It has not been indicated whether or not the deputy was injured.
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