Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Two Men Killed In Crash on Highway 2

  Michael Myers | January 03, 2006 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two men were killed and a passenger was injured in a head-on collision on Highway 2 between Sultan and Monroe. The accident occurred on Monday, January 2, 2006 at approximately 10:15 a.m. Authorities identified the drivers of the vehicles involved as Richard Montgomery of Monroe and Roy Griffin of Gold Bar. Mr. Montgomery was 56 years old and Mr. Griffin was 76 years old.The dangers of...

• Pedestrian in Critical Condition After Auto Accident

  Michael Myers | December 05, 2005 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 22 year old Seattle man suffered life-threatening injuries on Friday night when he was struck by a Honda near the Northgate Mall. The victim had stepped into a crosswalk at the intersection of First Avenue Northeast and Northeast 103rd Street when the accident occurred. There was no crossing signal at the intersection but police investigating the accident indicated that the pedestrian had...

• HWY 92 Auto Accident Injures Two

  Michael Myers | November 29, 2005 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A car accident on Sunday morning involving a 46-year-old Everett man and a 28-year-old Everett man left both drivers in the hospital. The 46-year-old driver apparently pulled his vehicle westbound onto Highway 92 from 99th Avenue NE and struck the 28-year-old, who was driving a Ford pickup and towing another vehicle. The collision sent the Ford and the car it was towing through the guardrail...

• Nine Car Accidents, 30 Vehicles Clog I-5

  Michael Myers | November 29, 2005 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 29, 2005 at least 30 cars were involved in nine separate accidents over a half mile stretch of northbound Interstate 5 near Arlington. The Washington State Patrol shut down all northbound lanes of I-5 for two hours after the accident. Traffic was stopped for eight miles to the south. Police investigating the collisions attributed them to a wall of...

• Motorcycle Accidents Increase Among Baby Boomers

  Michael Myers | November 22, 2005 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As baby boomers look for ways to spend their disposable income, they are buying motorcycles in ever increasing numbers. Americans over 40 constitute the largest group of motorcycle owners in the country. Unfortunately, this increase in motorcycle ownership also corresponds with an increase in fatal motorcycle accidents. Government statistics show that last year motorcyclists over 40 accounted...

• Mother, Daughter Victims of Hit & Run Accident

  Michael Myers | November 16, 2005 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Monday, November 14, 2005 an Everett woman and her five year-old daughter were struck from behind by a dark pickup while they were walking to school. The pickup fled the scene and Everett police continue to search for the driver. Click the following link to learn more information about the accident: Hit and Run Accident Injures Five Year-Old Girl Situations such as this one illustrate the...

• Serious Accident on SR 522 Caused by Deer

  Michael Myers | November 15, 2005 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Saturday, November 12, 2005 a deer in the road caused a collision between a Jeep Cherokee and a small, four-door Ford on State Route 522 near Monroe. The driver of the Jeep swerved to avoid the deer and crossed the center line, hitting the Ford head on. In total, there were nine people involved in the accident, five in the Ford and four in the Jeep.A 79 year old grandmother named Marjorie...

• Oak Harbor Truck Accident Fatality

  Michael Myers | November 15, 2005 2:53 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Saturday, November 12, 2005 a 21-year-old passenger was killed in a single car automobile accident near Oak Harbor. The accident occurred at 2:15 a.m. when the vehicle went out of control on a wet roadway while turning from Frostad Road Southbound onto Dugualla Road. The passenger was thrown from the pickup and killed. The vehicle’s driver was booked in Island County Jail on suspicion of...

• Car Accidents Caused by I-90 Rock Slides

  Michael Myers | November 15, 2005 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the last two months, dangerous rock slides on Interstate 90 have become a major problem. On September 11, 2005 boulders crashed onto a Volvo near Snoqualmie Pass, instantly killing the driver and her two passengers. The three victims were all 28 years old and hailed from Western Washington.A day later another boulder the size of a large pickup fell from nearly the same location. This time...

• $760,000 Awarded to Woman in Car Accident Settlement

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 7:50 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A King County woman was awarded $760,000 after an auto accident in British Columbia.Seatle's Mary Mulcahy broke her sternum in a 1994 accident when another driver pulled out in front of her. She still has pain and persisting medical problems to this day.Farmers Insurance, an American company, and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia have worked out a deal in which Farmers' U.S....