Tag: injuries

September 11, 2015

Man biking hits person in crosswalk on the Ave, both seriously injured

A man in his 20s biking on the Ave collided with a man in his 40s walking in a crosswalk Thursday evening, sending both people to the hospital. When Medics transported them shortly after 4:30 p.m., the man walking had serious injuries and the man biking was in critical condition. We send them both our…
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tagged: injuries, the ave, u district
May 4, 2015

Man biking at Rainier/Jackson seriously injured in collision with Metro bus

Police are investigating a collision Monday morning that sent a 26-year-old man on a bike to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. A Metro trolly bus and the injured man collided shortly before 8 a.m. A reader reported (caution: graphic images) that Medics loaded him onto a stretcher and rushed him to the hospital with a police…
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tagged: first hill streetcar, injuries, jackson, king county metro
November 26, 2014

Sally Clark struck person biking in Tacoma + Why she should become leader for safe streets

Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark was driving in Tacoma looking for a church when she made a left turn directly into the path of someone biking back in May 2012. Steve Fairbanks had the right of way and had no time to stop before colliding with the side of Clark’s Ford Escape, seriously injuring his…
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tagged: injuries, sally clark, tacoma
October 9, 2014

After 2 collisions at same 2nd Ave parking garage, city makes changes

After the second person in just one week was injured by a person turning across the 2nd Ave protected bike lane into a parking garage between Pike and Union, the city has made changes to improve visibility. Most early efforts to improve the bike lane focused on the signalized intersections, which makes sense because that…
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tagged: 2nd ave, dongho chang, injuries, king 5, protected bike lanes
October 7, 2014

One of too many

This story is a bit longer than a typical post on this site. Brandon reached out to me after Sher Kung died and said he wanted people to know what life is like for all those people who are critically injured but not killed in traffic collisions. You might see their counts tallied in a…
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tagged: brandon blake, dexter, injuries
October 1, 2014

This must end. Child hit ‘like a dog’ by two people who both kept driving in Rainier Valley

A seven-year-old girl is in serious condition in the Harborview ICU after she was struck by two different cars on MLK at S Genesee Street last night. “They hit her like a dog. Just ran over her, not stopping, no nothing. They sped up, not stopping at all — neither one of them,” one witness…
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tagged: hit and run, injuries, komo, mlk way, rainier valley