Posts tagged Car Accidents

• Teen Struck, Killed by Truck While Snowmobiling in Duvall

  Ryan Nute | January 01, 2007 1:41 PM | 2 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Eighteen-year hold Kyle Hamilton was killed when a pickup driven by a classmate struck the snowmobile he was riding. The driver of the pickup was arrested. A passenger on the snowmobile was also injured.Reportedly the crash occurred when Hamlton and a passenger were being followed by the pickup when its lights went out and the driver could not see it. Read more: Seatte P-I

• Truck Forces Vancouver Man Over Guardrail

  Ryan Nute | January 01, 2007 2:20 PM | 1 CommentTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Vancouver man was killed in Corbett, Oregon when he stopped on I-84 to help a crash victim and was forced to leap over a guardrail to avoid a passing truck.The driver of the crashed vehicle was cited for, amoung other things, driving under the influence. The identity of the truck driver has not been reported. The deceased was Brian Allen Bernier, a Postal Service employee in Vancouver.Read...

• Tacoma Accident Victim Identified as Michael Griffith

  Ryan Nute | December 23, 2006 5:17 PM | 1 CommentTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Michael Griffith of Parkland, Washington was killed while changing a tire on the shoulder of I-5 when a truck drifted from its lane and struck him.Read more: Injuryboard.com; Paul Sand, The News Tribune

• Teen Partying Leads to Deadly Crashes

  Michael Myers | May 01, 2006 10:49 AM | 1 CommentTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Tacoma News Tribune reported today that two separate accidents involving a death and four serious injuries occurred after a teen party in Enumclaw.Apparently, the teens and young adults were drinking and partying outdoors on Mud Mountain, in front of a large bonfire. The police received the first call around 11:00 pm, and the second call around 2:30 am. It is believed that both groups of...

• Post-Collision Car Fire in Thurston County

  Ryan Nute | February 02, 2008 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Pet Injured in Head on Crash

  Michael Myers | January 28, 2008 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• I Got Doored!

  Ryan Nute | January 02, 2008 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Drunk Driver Causes Deadly Accident in Tacoma

  Ryan Nute | December 29, 2007 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Passengers Injured in Sumner Crash

  Chelsea Gilbert | December 28, 2007 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Opportunity Cost Key Factor in Assessing Personal Injury Damages

  Michael Myers | December 21, 2007 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsTacoma, WA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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,...