It appears as though a man was hit by a car on 15th and Madison, but details are fuzzy. At least 17 patrol cars, 2 fire engines, and 2 ambulances showed up. Another man in a wheel chair seemed involved as well. Update to follow.

Neighborlogs intern Lucas Anderson sends in this shot of a single car accident that happened around 5:06 PM in front of the Safeway on 15th Ave. We'll get details from Seattle Fire when we can but Lucas reports that it looked like the driver was being transported to the hospital with a neck injury.

Update 9:25 AM:
Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Dana Vander Houwen confirms that nobody was seriously injured in this morning's accident on 15th Ave near E Denny way:

Originally there was a report of trapped patients but apparently they got out on their own. In the end, we only sent one Aid Car to the scene and everyone else was code greened. We did not transport any patients.

Seattle Police Department spokesperson Mark Jamieson said officers cited the driver for negligent driving. "She struck a parked vehicle and her vehicle flipped," Jamieson said. "We have a responsibility to control our vehicles." Jamieson said the woman told an officer that she experienced some kind of pain or cramp that caused her to lose control, strike the parked car and flip over. The driver was not cited for speed or for texting or using a cell phone.

Original Post:
A vehicle flipped when it struck another car around 1 AM this morning on 15th Ave near East Denny. We received the following note about the accident from tipster Matthew:

car flipped over on 15th and Denny 10 min ago. everyone seems fine. how do you tow that?

The 911 log lists the accident response time as 12:56 AM. A man working at the 7-11 at the intersection said the accident happened when a car traveling north on 15th Ave struck this vehicle parked in front of Insomniax Coffee. He wasn't sure what type of car flipped.

If this was your car parked on 15th last night and you're just waking up this morning, sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

The damaged Kia Spectra

We're checking into any injuries from the crash and any more on what caused it.

The driver in Monday night's accident in which a father and two young children were hit in a crosswalk at the intersection of Aloha and 15th Ave E was arrested for drunk driving, a Seattle Police Department spokesperson tells CHS.

The driver was questioned at the scene and arrested for DUI, according to Seattle Police Department spokesperson Mark Jamieson. SPD would not provide the name of the suspect.

The father and the two boys, aged 1 and 3, who were hit returned home from the hospital with only minor bumps the night of the accident, the family's mother told CHS.

UPDATE 6/30/09 11:45 AM:
The mother of the two little boys provides a quick update in comments:

from the family

Just landed at SeaTac. Boys and daddy got home from hospital last night and aside from some bumps, are ok.

Mom

More Tuesday updates at the end of this post.

The driver was arrested after questioning at the scene.

ORIGINAL REPORT 6/29/09 7:32 PM:
A driver was arrested tonight after the car he was driving struck a family crossing an Aloha Street crosswalk at the intersection of 15th Ave E. Two children were transported from the scene in ambulances, one of them strapped to a gurney. One adult who was struck was also wheeled on a gurney to the waiting ambulance. Their conditions are unknown at this time but scanner dispatches indicated the injuries did not appear to be life threatening.

The white Volvo involved in the 7:00 PM accident was stopped part way through the crosswalk where the family had been hit moments from the sidewalk. Not far away in the gutter lay a toppled stroller.

Traffic at the intersection was blocked for more than an hour as emergency crews responded.

UPDATE 11:21 PM:
KOMO TV is reporting that the children were and 1 and 3-years-old and were being walked by their father at the time of the accident.

KOMO is also saying police would not say whether the driver had been arrested or only handcuffed and questioned. Information we gathered at the scene indicated that the man was being arrested. We'll keep working to confirm details and attempt to update information on the condition of the family.

UPDATE 6/30/09 10:37 AM:
Seattle Police confirm that the driver was, indeed, arrested but won't say yet what crime the man was booked into jail on. His vehicle was impounded.

No additional information on the condition of the man and the two children who were struck. If anybody knows the family and would like to update everybody, please contact chs@capitolhillseattle.com or call us at (206) 399-5959.

Neighbor Rina reports a hit and run accident Sunday night near 18th and Howell:

Hey-there was a crazy hit and run around 9:00 tonight.  A black mini van and a black Dodge Durango were involved in some sort of altercation that ended with the Durango hitting the mini van.  The Durango then slammed into a red Honda Prelude.  There was quite a bit of damage to the prelude, he probably won't be able to drive the car away, and I won't be surprised if the Prelude is still there in the early morning.

No entry in the 911 log so looks like nobody was injured. We'll give SPD a call to see if they can tell us what went down.

UPDATE: Not a lot more clarity from SPD but they did confirm that the accident was a hit and run involving two vehicles smashing into a third. The drivers of the dark blue Durango and the minivan both drove away from the scene and could not be located after an area search. SPD confirms that were no injuries.

In early march, CHS covered an awful motorcycle accident at the intersection of Belmont and Bellevue Place. A 27-year-old woman riding her motorcycle up the hill was severely injured after a car turned into her path and struck the bike. We knew at the time from eyewitnesses that the rider's leg was badly hurt. Tonight, in a comment left on the crash coverage post that she found while searching the Web for information on the accident, CHS heard from Jess, the woman who survived that crash.

I am the survivor of the motorcycle accident. I have little else to do in my hospital bed than browse the internet so tonight I decided to browse and see if I could find anything about the accident and this is what came up. Thank you all for your concern and for photos of the scene. I'm still in shock when I think about the injuries I have sustained.

I am still here in the hospital. Surgeons were able to save my leg and I have undergone 8 surgeries to fix bones and for grafting. My condition improves daily but I'm still in a great amount of pain. I don't know how much longer I'll be here. I have yet to get out of bed.

My bike was brand new. I had bought it on Tuesday the 3rd but because of weather conditions thought it would be safer to bring it home on Wednesday the 4th when it wasn't raining. Friday the 6th was the first day I actually got a chance to ride it. It was chilly but sunny. The irony kills me. As a correction, my bike was a 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500.

My many thanks go out to everyone who was there to help and the poor lady who held my hand while I screamed. I didn't know any other way to cope with the pain and knowledge that I had lost my leg (when I first looked down my leg I didn't see anything past my knee). Thank you all again. I'll bookmark and try to check back again.

I've contacted Jess to see if there is anything the CHS community can do for her. Just knowing more information about what happened and how she is doing is enough -- but I'm sure there are lots of you out there who wouldn't mind helping out.

Traffic was backed up for about 30 minutes this afternoon after a freight truck struck the Arboretum pedestrian bridge crossing Lake Washington Boulevard. A year ago next week, two dozen people went to the hospital after a charter bus carrying members of Garfield's girl's softball teams struck the same bridge. The driver of the truck appeared uninjured and was being questioned at the scene after he helpe maneuver the truck out from under the bridge and into a nearby parking lot.

Details are slim but saw a series of aid response callouts to 12th Ave and E. Denny tonight around 8:47 PM -- from the scanner, heard report that a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Injuries unknown at this time. Not sure if it's a good sign but the incident cleared relatively quickly. Will update when I know more. Here's a look at the intersection by day on Google Street View. Crossing 12th is always a little scary -- on a dark night in this rain, it's even scarier.

UPDATE 4/3/09 8:50 AM: SFD confirms a woman in her 30s was struck by a car as she was crossing the street. Fortunately, injuries were reported as minor.

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An apparently quiet weekend on top of the Hill but all sorts of bad stuff happening on the edges:

• On Saturday, I happened to be working and listening to the police scanner and heard a report of a carjacking in Kirkland. Chase ensued and played out on the scanner ending in a crash on I5 near Pine just below I5 Shores. Here's the full story from the Kirkland Reporter.
• On Sunday, the scanner featured an emergency of a more nautical variety. A 19' boat moored at the Four Seasons apartments burned on the shores of Lake Washington down Portage Bay way. No word on cause and no injuries reported by SFD.
• A drive-by shooting claimed the life of an unknown man in his 20s early this morning near 26th and Cherry. Central District News has the story.

A few incidents involving 911 call-outs this weekend that I've been looking into:

• A 25-year-old woman was struck at intersection of Denny and Bellevue last night. SFD says she was not transported to a hospital by them but could have gone in via private ambulance company so no confirmation on injuries. A post on Twitter included this picture of the incident:
  
  

  Picture: mrmatthew
• Checked out what I could find about the incident from Saturday night reported at the Joey Ray apartments. SFD could only confirm the call-out for aid response but had no other details they could share. We'll see if the medical examiner updates over the next few days bring any additional info to light. Don't want to be digging into every siren on the hill but would like to clear up the situation around this incident.

Earlier this month, we wrote about the closing of a quiet little jewelry store on 15th Ave E. It was called DSR -- stood for Diamond, Saphires and Rubies, Inc. or Donna S. Richey or both. Store was a bit of a mystery to most of us. But not neighbor AliceE:

The jewelry store was originally owned by Michael Farrell - for over 12 years that I personally know of. He also has a store on Sand Point. He sold the 15th Ave. E store to Donna a couple of years ago or so. When it was Farrell's Jewelers, it was staffed by a very knowledgeable woman who kept regular 9-5 hours. Donna is more eclectic. The shop's hours were not consistent, Donna opened in the afternoon whenever she arrived and she stayed late into the night (often past midnight) after the store was closed, repairing jewelry. Some people loved her Scotties, others not so much. She previously worked out of an office in a high-rise downtown, and was very successful. Her style didn't work so well for a store-front in a neighborhood. I hope she prospers with the next...

I have kind of a weird job. I'm a reporter/editor/etc. working for my own neighborhood blog. Bradford Bohonus, besides having an amazing name, also has a weird job. He's a 'virtual reality' panoramic photographer. Around 12:30p on Friday, he was setting up for a cold and icy panoramic shot of downtown from the corner of Bellevue and Thomas when three buses entered the frame of his viewfinder:

When the second bus passed me it was as if some horrible stage had been set, a chain of events that appeared hopelessly pre-determined. Two buses sliding down the hill towards a 30+ foot cliff over the I-5 interstate. This is the type of thing that one can certainly play out in their mind. I only hoped that what I thought might happen next wasn’t going to happen.

As the near-tragedy became merely a bizarre entry in Snowpocalypto 2008, Bohonus says he scrambled to set up his VR camera to capture the scene. The result is this odd image of kids scuffling about on an icy street, the bus they just scrambled out of stuck,...

It's Wednesday and, yes, it's my birthday. I was going to say something tomorrow but the only thing worse than people that tell you today's their birthday are the people that tell you yesterday was their birthday (it's really best to keep birthdays to yourself). Anyway, here's a look at Tuesday's Capitol Hill activity in the East Precinct.

Central District News East Precinct Scanner - Capitol Hill - Tue. 10/28/2008 - Full Report

10:51AM - 1410 E John St - Shoplifting - Adult male in custody at Safeway

11:06AM - Bolyston Ave and Senca St - Fight Disturbance - A man and woman are fighting outside of their white travel van. White male, 20s, sweatshirt, white female, 20s. Caller says the female is the victim. The male fled in the van and the female left in an unknown direction.

12:16PM - 2600 E. John - Keep the Peace - Police asked to be on hand while county mental-health staff try to involuntarily commit a man.

12:32PM - Harvard & E. Pike - Disturbance - Mental health staff have...

Knocking all the news updates and police scanner reports out with one blow. Here's what's up.

Bellevue & Pine Fire

• The man who died was Ed Jackson. The former manager of the Marion Apartments was 89 and had been fighting eviction from the building slated for demolition and redevelopment.
• Seattle Fire Department has confirmed that the blaze was intentionally set and that investigation is now in hands of SPD. Seattle PI 911 blog has rest of details from the fire department public info.
• Brad has photo of the building post-fire and asks a question about logistics.
• We had report that a gun was recovered at scene late yesterday.
• CHS Coverage

Broadway pedestrian accident

• Name of victim hasn't been released and no updates on the incident yet.
• People on the scene have varying accounts:
  Some say he died
  Others have very different details of proceedings
• CHS Coverage
  

Central District News East Precinct Scanner - Capitol Hill - Mon. 10/27/2008 - Full Report

1:22PM - 1401 Broadway - Shoplifting - Adult male without ID in custody...

We had a few reports of car accidents on the Hill last night -- sounds like there was another accident late last night involving a car and a bicyclist between Pike and Pine on Broadway.

UPDATE -- SPD confirms this was car and pedestrian accident. Report:

On October 24th , at approximately 11:42 P.M., a  Ford, Mustang, driven by a 25-yoa male was traveling northbound on Broadway Ave in the center lane approaching Pike St.   At the same time a 24-yoa male was crossing Pike St eastbound in the north crosswalk at Pike St.  The Mustang struck the 24-yoa pedestrian, who when up onto the hood; striking his head on the windshield and continued over the top of the vehicle and landed on the street.  Seattle Fire Department responded to the scene and transported the 24-yoa male pedestrian to HMC, who had a broken right leg and serious head injures, which were thought to be life threatening.  

Witness statements indicated that the Mustang had a green light and the pedestrian apparently entered the crosswalk against the “Don’...

Saw this accident between a cab and a BMW at Pine & Summit.  Looks like the BMW was trying to sneak a left ahead of the cab making a right.  Nasty accident.

Busy day in the East Precinct yesterday. Here's a picture of the pickup truck involved in the 15th & Aloha accident, btw.

Central District News East Precinct Scanner Report - Capitol Hill - 10/14/2008 - Full Report

12:17PM - 15th Ave E & E. Aloha - Accident - Blocking, with injuries

12:29PM - 1500 11th Ave - Disturbance - Unruly customer in Value Village is yelling and throwing things around

2:12PM - Broadway & E. Union Seattle - Welfare Check - Man down on the sidewalk. Possibly just intoxicated

4:45PM - 1621 12th Ave - Trespassing - Business owner wants a man trespassed from his property. The suspect is trying to use the bathroom.

5:00PM - Broadway E and E Olive Way - Car Prowler - Two men are attempting to break into a green Honda. One of the suspects is a white male, 30s.

5:57PM - 1800 Broadway - Theft - 2 students are in the Seattle Central office, with one claiming that the other has his stolen laptop, which the other claims was purchased from a pawn...

A Hollywood-worthy accident on Broadway minutes ago -- from the Central District News police scanner report:

915 E. Roy - Accident & Fire - A vehicle has run into a gas pump at the 76 station, causing a fire. Police are shutting down traffic on all neighboring streets, including Broadway. Update: Victim found with burns on her legs and feet. Update x2: Police have the driver, who is described as "very high"

Looks like there was a car-bike incident on Aloha tonight. From Seattle LJ:

There was a hit & run involving a car & a bunch of bicyclists (critical mass folks possibly?) on E Aloha in Capitol Hill about an hour ago - apparently a driver was either trying to back up into the street, go around the bikes, or was just irritated that he/she was stuck behind them and decided to drive straight through them and kept going. No one was killed, but at least one guy was bleeding. Apparently some of the bicyclists took off after the vehicle, but I don't know if they caught him or her.

Seattle real-time 911 confirms a medic response on Aloha around the same time as the LJ report. The account above needs to be corroborated so no rush to judgment about the driver or the bicyclists.

Can judge Aloha, though. Relatively narrow Aloha is a bike/car traffic danger zone so seemed only a matter of time before something like this happened. With the tension between two-wheelers and four-wheelers, expect to hear more about this incident...