A two-car collision on 8th Avenue Northwest at NW 75th Street at about 5:30 a.m. temporarily blocked traffic while police investigated. An initial report that three cars were involved was incorrect.
According to police and one person involved in the accident, a Geo Metro ran the stop sign on NW 75th Street and got T-boned by a Ford F150 pickup truck heading south on 8th Avenue NW. Paramedics took the woman to the hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries, police said.
“I was just going down the street. The lady never stopped. She never even slowed down,” said the visibly shaken pickup driver. “I’m alright. It just scared me, with her,” he said, fearing she had been more seriously injured.
The dark green Geo Metro ended up on the east side of 8th facing the opposite direction.
Don, who lives nearby, said he heard a “screech and a whoomp” at about 5:30 a.m. and ran outside with his camera. You can find a link to his picture in comments. “The woman was still in the car and talking, but it sounded like she was in pain. As I was leaving two police cars and a fire engine were on the scene.”
If you also heard a news helicopter at about that time, that’s why it was over the area.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Don // Mar 3, 2010 at 6:19 am
It happened just after 5:30. Tried to send pictures but to blog but they exceed the size limit.
2 Don // Mar 3, 2010 at 6:25 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41334249@N00/4403333585/
3 Dale // Mar 3, 2010 at 6:40 am
Thanks, Don. I’m adding details of what you sent in e-mail to tips@phinneywood.com to the story.
4 anon // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:43 am
Am I missing something? You hear an accident – woman sounds like she is in pain – and you stop to get your camera???
5 Pat // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:45 am
Oooh, so exciting, guys… Just what all the Whittier Heights families wanted, a helicopter hovering over at 5:30 am.
6 Greenwood // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:52 am
Man, everytime something like this happens there are always folks b*tching about helicopters. We live in a city. There is gonna be noise.
7 Norm // Mar 3, 2010 at 12:54 pm
So Greenwood I guess you’d be copacetic with me playing with an air horn out in front of your house at 05:30? Sure we live in a city and I expect to hear sirens rushing to an accident or choppers covering a 5 alarm fire at odd hours, and when I lived by Children’s I tried to send good thoughts to patient and family every time I heard the life flight chopper go over the house. But a news chopper waking everyone up at 5:30 just to cover a run of the mill accident, that’s just rude.
8 GreenwoodGal // Mar 3, 2010 at 2:14 pm
What Norm said.
9 Drew // Mar 3, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Don’t watch the stupid TV stations!
10 Penny // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:53 pm
I’m with Anon on this. People really need to get a life.
11 Amy // Mar 4, 2010 at 8:00 am
Let me guess. The woman who ran the stop sign was Asian, right? For some unknown reason the worst drivers are Asian women. (And for the politically correct, don’t bother attacking me…I don’t have government-funded scientific studies to prove it. Just my own observation, but ask any driver’s license examiner and you’ll get the same story.)
12 JJ // Mar 5, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Amy–I totally had to laugh at your post!
Listen, I’m 1/2 Asian, and I gotta just tell ya–you’re pretty much right about the bad driver thing. My mom drives like Mr. Magoo! That said though, I’m going to guess that the lady wasn’t Asian. Us Asians tend to not drive Geo’s…….just sayin’…
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