Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Tacoma

Sometimes accidents and injuries arise from a combination of factors--not just negligent driving. It's important not to overlook any potential cause in a serious injury accident.Two people were killed in a car accident in Thurston County early Sundy morning. According to the Washington State Patrol the 1997 Pontiac Grand Am was traveling northbound on SR 101 at about 1:30 a.m. when it veered to...

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More and more people are driving with pets in their cars. That means more and more pets are being injured in motor vehicle accidents. A poodle riding in a pickup truck was seriously injured when a driver traveling the opposite direction on State Route 515 crossed the center line and hit the pickup head on. The pickup driver, a 48-year old woman from Kent, and her passenger, a 49-year old man...

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It's one of the commuting cyclist's perils. You're riding on the shoulder past parked cars when all of a sudden someone opens their car door, leaving you the choice of (a) crashing into said door or (b) veering left into traffic. Quite the "Hobson's Choice" (that is, no choice at all).Did you ever wonder whether drivers have a legal duty to look before opening their doors? Well, they do. And...

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On Christmas Eve Peter Pung, 18, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Pung was driving on Golden Given Road East, a road in Tacoma, Washington, when a pickup blew through a stop sign and T-boned Pung's Honda. The driver of the pickup, Aaaron Wayne Bell, 26, crashed into Pung's car with such speed it drove the Honda's passenger-side door into Pung and crushed him against the driver's side...

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On Christmas Eve a 35-year old man was killed and two men were critically injured in a car crash on West Valley Highway in Sumner, Washington. According to the police, the driver was speeding, lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and then hit a tree. The driver was declared dead at the scene of the accident; the two passengers were transported to Harborview Medical Center. Alcohol was...

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Personal injury cases are typically valued--by insurance adjusters, personal injury attorneys and juries--based on medical expenses. Oftentimes lost wages and, to a greater extent, opportunity cost, take a back seat. Should people who get hurt in accidents be compensated for the opportunities they miss because of someone else's negligence? On Monday, Brian Ebersole, former state legislator,...

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I was looking through my email and found an alert from KIRO. It described an accident that happened on Friday involving a DOT truck. During the morning commute last Friday an SUV slammed into a Department of Transportation worker's truck on Interstate 5 in Fife. The collision killed the SUV driver, Roy P. Fuentes, and injured the 56-year-old State worker, David Ball. Ball was outside of...

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On Tuesday, November 20, two planes collided in mid-air over Washington. One of the planes landed safely at an airstrip nearby and the other plane crashed into Commencement Bay.An officer from the Coast guard claimed that two people who crashed in the water were recovered by boaters, but their condition was not immediately known.The other plane did not crash, but landed at the Thun Field in...

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Two men were killed early Sunday morning in a car crash on Tacoma's East Side. The driver, Godwin Adeniyi, 23, lost control of the car after going through the intersection of East 96th and A streets, crashing the car into a tree.Adeniyi was transported to a hospital, where he died shortly after arriving. The passenger, Juan Arce Jr., 21, died at the scene of the accident. Arce was a private...

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An Olalla man who allegedly ran over a boy's arm with his pickup truck is being charged with a hit-and-run. In July, Brian Hayes, 33, was driving up the hill exiting a trailer park as two boys on a moped were also driving up the hill. When the road narrowed the moped driver, 17, applied the brakes, causing both of the moped riders to be thrown off. Hayes allegedly ran over one of the boy's...

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Sandie Olosky, 35, the Metro bus driver involved in the head-on collision in April that killed a man, will be fired by Metro.The accident occurred on Highway 164 when Olosky failed to slow with traffic and then swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting the vehicle in front of her. The bus hit the bumper of the vehicle in front of her and then collided with a truck driven by Michael...

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In the early hours of the morning on September 9th a drunk driver headed the wrong way on I-5 caused a collision that resulted in the death of one young woman. According to police, Cerrissa R. Christensen, 27, had a history of drunk driving and DUI arrests. Christensen was being pursued by police when she crashed into a northbound 1988 Chevrolet pickup. A passenger in the pickup, 18-year-old...

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After leaving the Muckleshoot Casino, a man, suspected to be intoxicated, caused a series of crashes in the early morning hours of September 27th. The man hit a vehicle when exiting the Muckleshoot Casino parking lot and, shortly afterwards, hit a street sign while driving down a residential street.According to a witness, the truck "flipped in the air, hit the telephone pole in the air...

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Read more: Erica Barnett, The StrangerThe recent death of a bicyclist in Seattle is raising questions about the safety of "fixed-gear" bikes (that is, bikes where the cog on the rear wheel is attached directly to the hub rather than spinning freely).http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=322254The problem with these bikes is described in a recent article in The Stranger. Some cyclists...

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Distraction - in its various forms - is an increasing problem in the United States.On July 1, 2007, Washington became one of several states to ban the use of cell phones while driving, unless the driver is using a hands-free devise. Clearly, the influence of distracted drivers on road safety has become an increasing concern of Washington police (and residents). "Anything you can do at home,...

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