Tag: deaths
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Spanaway 5th grader hit while biking home, dies
A ten-year-old Spanaway boy was struck and killed by a pickup truck while biking home from a friend’s house around 6:45 p.m. Thursday evening. The fifth grader was leaving the driveway of a friend’s house a mere seven blocks from his own home when the collision occurred, according to The News Tribune. He was pronounced dead…
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‘She had nothing, but she gave all that she could’
In the weeks after she moved from living in her car to a room at the Brookside Motel, Debbrah Marie Pesce impressed her neighbors with her willingness to give back to others despite struggling with homelessness herself. An apparently impatient person driving a late 80s or early 90s Ford F-Series pickup truck killed Pesce while…
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Woman biking in Monroe killed, driver flees scene
A pickup driver killed a woman biking on Highway 2 in Monroe Wednesday night, then fled the scene. The collision happened at 7:37 p.m. near the intersection of Highway 2 and Old Own Road. The pickup was stopped behind another vehicle, and the driver started revving its engine. The driver then pulled quickly around the…
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Pickup driver who killed Trent Graham in Everett may have been texting
The man who swerved across several lanes of traffic on a wide, busy Everett street before striking and killing Trent Graham October 17 did not fall asleep. There was no medical emergency that caused the 56-year-old man to drift across at least four lanes before striking Graham in the far curb lane on the seven-lane…
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Nap Cantwell memorial scholarship fund raises over $32K for Bike Works
In the wake of 18-year-old Nap Cantwell’s tragic death following a May 29 collision at Pike and Boren, his family asked that donations in his honor be made to Bike Works. In the first week, $11,000 were donated to the organization, which put the money toward their youth programs. As of today, more than $32,000…
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Lynnwood man struck and killed while biking near Brier
A 24-year-old man biking near Brier was struck by a pickup truck and died Saturday, according to the Everett Herald. The man, from Lynnwood, died at the scene of the 10:30 a.m. collision near the intersection of Atlas and Barker Roads in unincorporated Snohomish County. The driver, a 43-year-ol from Mountlake Terrace, was not under…
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