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Law enforcement officers suspect that alcohol was involved in two recent rollover accidents in Washington State that resulted in serious injuries. Both were single-vehicle crashes. In one, a vehicle ran a stop sign near Zillah, collided with a signpost, went through a field of stacked lumber and flipped over. The…

A recent crash that injured five people near George, Wash., combined two of the most common Washington State accident scenarios: It was a chain reaction and intersection accident. The Wenatchee World reported that a car turned left without yielding to oncoming traffic and was struck by a car coming in…

The aftermath of the Skagit River Bridge collapse brought warnings about the dangerous state of America’s infrastructure. Specifically, the conditions of America’s bridges have been discussed. But what about bridges here in Washington State? According to the Washington State Department of Transportation, more than 30 bridges in Kittitas, Yakima and…

Commuters who travel on Interstate 5 in Seattle are accustomed to traffic jams. However, a tractor-trailer accident caused more than the usual traffic annoyance recently. According to the Seattle Times, the rig jack-knifed in the early morning of May 29, causing all four southbound lanes to close for hours. The…

Seven people were injured in a head-on crash in Seattle recently when a Hyundai Santa Fe and a Dodge Caravan collided on SW Holden. Five people in the Santa Fe, including two small children, and two people in the Caravan were taken to a hospital for injuries that were not…

A 24-year-old Bellingham woman was fatally injured in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 5 recently in Arlington, Washington. According to news reports, her motorcycle struck an SUV that had slowed to avoid another accident. The rider was ejected from the motorcycle and pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators were looking…

A family of four was killed over the Memorial Day weekend when their vehicle plunged down an embankment and into a flowing irrigation canal near George, Wash. According to a report in The Spokesman-Review, the family – a 35-year-old man, a 33-year old woman and children ages 9 and 4…

The recent collapse of a bridge on Interstate 5 over the Skagit River in North Vernon shocked residents of Washington State as well as people across the nation. Amazingly, only three people received non-life-threatening injuries. The bridge collapsed when it was struck by an oversize tractor-trailer. According to news reports,…

A pickup truck driver was killed recently when his truck rolled over on Highway 101 near Sequim, Washington, as he tried to avoid two other vehicles that had just been in an accident. KOMO News reported that the driver died instantly. The earlier accident involved a car that had slowed…

Federal accident investigators are calling on states to significantly lower the drunk driving threshold, as other nations have done, to reduce deaths from alcohol-impaired driving. The National Transportation Safety Board urged states to reduce the current 0.08 percent blood-alcohol standard to 0.05 percent, the Associated Press reports. According the NTSB,…