39 children were injured in a school bus accident this morning. The accident happened on Highway 281 just south of Quincy, Washington. The area is an agricultural region, about 120 miles east of Seattle. According to the police report, the bus driver lost control and went off the road. He then over corrected, causing the bus to overturn on it’s passenger side. All 39 students on board suffered injuries, although most were minor scrapes, bloody noses, and bruises. Three children were in serious condition, though none of the injuries are life-threatening. One of the seriously injured was airlifted to nearby Moses Lake, and the other two were taken to a hospital in Ephrata. The rest of the students were taken to local Quincy Valley Medical Center, where they were treated and reconnected with family members. The bus driver was more
Shots once again rang out Wednesday evening in a notoriously violent area of Rainier Beach, leaving a young man dead and police dealing with an angry crowd. Police and paramedics were called to Rainier Avenue South and South Fisher Place just before 8:30 p.m. after getting a call of shots fired. When they arrived on scene, they found a 31-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds. As many as 50 people were gathered at the scene, and police say they were hostile and initially prevented officers from helping the victim, according to Det. Mark Jamieson with Seattle police. The man was given CPR and taken Harborview Medical Center where he later died. No arrests have been made, and the name of the man who was killed has not been more
Two accidents caused two deaths and snarled traffic over an 8-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in southern Lewis County Thursday morning. A father and son from Vancouver died when their northbound pickup rear-ended a semi-truck on the highway near Winlock, the Washington State Patrol announced. The crash, reported shortly after 8 a.m., shut down the freeway northbound for about three hours and backed up traffic four miles. Drivers were detoured on State Route 505 and Jackson Highway. According to the WSP, a 1998 Toyota T-100 pickup driven by Anatoliy P. Kovalchuk, 43, was in the left lane and ran into the rear of a 2008 Kenworth semi-truck with a flatbed trailer driven by 44-year-old Truman J. Swinhart of Spokane. Swinhart’s truck was at the very more
The 23-year-old driver suspected to be the cause of Friday’s four-car crash on Aurora was likely high on drugs at the time, according to the Seattle Police Department. Shortly after 11:05 a.m., the man crashed his Nissan into the back of a Honda while traffic was slowing or stopping in the northbound lane of Aurora near North 104th Street, according to police.
According to police, that impact caused the Honda to rear end a BMW, which rear ended a Ford truck, causing the closure of all northbound lanes on Aurora. While being evaluated at the scene, the driver of the Nissan was suspected to be under the influence of one or more drugs, according to police. He was taken to Northwest Hospital for treatment of a minor injury and booked into King County Jail on an outstanding warrant for probation more
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