Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• 1 Killed, 2 Injured in Alcohol Related Car Accident

  Michael Myers | March 27, 2006 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Sunday at approximately 2 a.m., an SUV crossed the center line on a British Columbia highway and collided with an oncoming car. The driver of the car died at the scene. The passenger in the car suffered injuries and was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham. The SUV's driver and passenger also suffered injuries and were taken to St. Joseph Hospital. Authorities believe alcohol was a...

• Two injured in truck accident off Highway 520 in Redmond

  Michael Myers | August 31, 2006 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two people were injured, including one who was airlifted to Harborview Medical center when a semi-trailer truck apparently lost its brakes and drove out of control down an eastbound off ramp from Highway 520 in Redmond. The truck crossed West Lake Sammamish Parkway near Marymoor Park, knocking over road signs as it went off the road, and then careened over about a 30-foot-embankment before...

• Judge Tosses Out BAC Results in U-Haul Suit

  Mark McLean | August 21, 2007 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Maria Federici suffered severe personal injuries--including (permanent) blindness, shattered bones in her face and severed arteries--when cargo from a U-Haul trailer in front of her fell out of the trailer and hit her vehicle. The accident and Ms. Federici's subsequent injuries led to "Maria's Law" which mandates stricter tie-down requirements and increases penalties for violators. Apparently...

• Accident Leaves Seven Mile Backup on I-5 and Boy Seriously Injured

  Michael Myers | August 31, 2007 8:22 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Accidents seem to happen more frequently over the summer. Last weekend was no exception. A seven-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 just south of the King-Pierce county line Saturday morning left a 14-year-old boy seriously injured and closed all southbound lanes of the freeway for more than five hours.At its worst, traffic on southbound I-5 was backed up seven miles, nearly to Kent, said Lauren...

• Elderly Driver Who Caused Collision Struggled With Confusion

  Michael Myers | January 16, 2006 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The 88-year old Everett man who caused a fatal head-on collision while driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 had struggled with bouts of confusion prior to the accident. In December, Walter Van Heukelem left his nursing home, drove against traffic and crashed into 27-year old Jeremiah Watkins. Mr. Van Heukelem and Mr. Watkins were both killed in the crash. Mr. Van Heukelem had been living at...

• Car Drifting Across Four Lanes of Traffic Strikes and Kills Jogger

  Ryan Nute | December 17, 2007 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A jogger was hit and killed by a motorist Saturday while jogging down Duvall Avenue Northeast in Renton, Washington. The 37-year old jogger was traveling along the northbound lanes when a southbound car drifted across four lanes of traffic and hit the jogger from behind. The car then went down an embankment. The 34-year old driver sustained injuries. I take some personal interest in these...

• One Dead, One Injured in Southwest Washington Accident

  Mark McLean | August 21, 2007 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A pickup truck veered off the roadway, crashed into a tree and went up in flames on Highway 8 near McCleary on Saturday. The driver of the truck was killed and the passenger, Puyallup's Paul Orris, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. Matthew A. Lingley, a 26-year-old Graham man, was driving a 1988 Ford flatbed truck eastbound on Highway 8 when the truck left the...

• Bar Held Liable for Drunk Driving Accident

  Michael Myers | April 02, 2006 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In April 2000, a New York resident, her son, daughter and newborn were driving on LaBounty Drive in Bellingham when a van swerved into her lane and struck her car. The driver suffered a broken nose, broken knee and facial lacerations. Her 7-year-old son was paralyzed from the waist down. Her daughter suffered two broken wrists and facial lacerations. The 57-year-old driver of the van had...

• Centralia Crash Leaves Two Dead

  Mark McLean | August 07, 2007 3:17 PM | 1 CommentSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two people died following a car crash near Centralia last week. Apparently, the driver was speeding, left the roadway and hit a tree, killing both himself and a passenger.The driver of a 1990 Honda Civic, Gabriel S. Escamilla, 35, of Centralia, and passenger Candace M. Leyva, 21, were headed eastbound on Seminary Hill Road about 9:50 p.m. when the car left the roadway at Grimes Road and hit a...

• Warhol Painting Depicting Fatal Car Accident Yields $71 Million

  Mark McLean | June 29, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Andy Warhol's "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)" was recently auctioned for $71.7 million dollars. The painting depicts a fatal car crash in Seattle."Green Car Crash," painted in 1963, is part of a series of Warhol works that drew on photographs of fatal accidents. Silkscreened over a green background, the painting uses a news photograph of a grisly crash in Seattle.If a painting depicting...