The King County Medical Examiner has identified the woman struck and killed by a driver as she reportedly slept near the exit of a Capitol Hill apartment building parking garage last week.
Investigators say Angela Marie Willard died of blunt force injury of the torso in the Tuesday morning accident on Boylston between Pine and Pike. She was 49.
According to the report, Willard was hit and killed in the parking garage exit of the block-wide Pike Motorworks building.
CHS reported here on the 6:30 AM collision and investigation. According to police, the 49-year-old woman was reportedly sleeping, “laying in the roadway” when the driver exited her parking garage onto Boylston. Seattle Fire said it treated the woman and rushed her to Harborview in critical condition where she later died.
Police say the driver stayed on scene and cooperated with police. A Drug Recognition Expert evaluated her and found no signs of impairment, SPD says.
Willard’s death is the third vehicle and pedestrian related fatality in the area in June. CHS reported here on the death of two residents backed over and killed in a smoking shelter behind a First Hill senior community earlier this month.
Willard was reported as a Seattle resident.
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Beyond tragic and hard to comprehend given the design of the Motorworks parking garage entry/exit.
Tragic indeed, but what is hard to comprehend? A driver exiting a garage would have no reason to expect a person lying down in the roadway.
Hmmm, based on your statement I definitely wouldn’t want to be around you while you’re driving a car….
Not an uncommon site around the hill since Covid. It’s shocking it doesn’t happen more often honestly. Last month a guy had passed out surrounded by his foil and wrapped himself in a blanket right in the alley by the dumpsters on 13th and Denny. I figured no way the garbage truck dude on the way to the dumpsters saw him so I flagged him down and said careful. Dude said he spotted him all the way and that it was part of his job.
WTF. That’s where we are at with “compassion”.