A man died and a woman was taken to the hospital in a chaotic scene outside the QFC at Broadway and Pike as an overdose medical response overlapped with a pedestrian struck by a driver at the busy corner late Monday night.
According to Seattle Fire and emergency radio updates, a 30-year-old man died at the scene as medics responded to the reported drug overdose outside the grocery store just before 11 PM.
Minutes later, a woman was reported struck by a driver as the overdose response continued bringing more Seattle Fire units to the intersection as well as Seattle Police who were rushed to help with traffic and the growing number of onlookers. Seattle Fire says its crews treated the 48-year-old victim who was in stable condition and transported her to Harborview.
The Broadway/Pike crash scene was witnessed by District 3 city council candidate Ry Armstrong who posted an account of the incident to social media.
After grabbing drinks with @electefrain we witnessed the most traumatic incident of a woman getting hit by a car. I was crying watching this all happen so fast and I’m still processing it all in real time… she literally flipped in the air. I hope she is ok. Damn. pic.twitter.com/CRQZvkSAUd
— RY ARMSTRONG (@ryontheryse) June 27, 2023
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Awful. I hope the woman hit by a car is recovering, and RIP to the man who overdosed. That corner in front of the QFC is home to a nasty open air drug scene. I wish the QFC security would shoo away the druggies so the rest of us can have a more pleasant shopping experience.
Listen to yourself, complaining about the “druggies” impacting your shopping experience when one person died and another is critically injured. You should feel extremely gross for this.
With respect, what is wrong with YOU? Caphiller expressed compassion/condolences for the woman and man, respectively. So you can put that straw man back in your bag of tricks. The fact Caphiller wants the druggies to move so that people can buy food and other necessities of life isn’t the “gross” sentiment you think it is.
Mixing a complaint about “druggies” interrupting one’s “pleasant shopping experience” into an expression of compassion and condolences is crass, callous, and disgusting. Respect for the dead and contempt for the living should not be spoken in the same breath.
Good grief. Two things can be true at the same time. It is very sad that one person died and one got hurt, AND neighborhood residents shouldn’t be subjected to the filth and chaos that the drug zombies bring to that corner daily.
That QFC is a cesspool
So is the one a few blocks north. QFC=hellhole.
Quality Fentanyl Corner
Hahahahahahhahahaha.
That’s great. Now do Safeway.
How do they know someone OD vs just sleeping or something?
Well, there’s always the small matter of first responders finding them dead. That’s one hell of a nap.
Shallow breathing or no breathing. Not responding when shaken or otherwise alerted. You can give Narcan and it won’t hurt them if they AREN’T ODing, but if they wake up, you saved a life.
Interesting, thanks!
Also look for their fingers turning blue, blue lips.