A person in the street was struck and sent to the hospital in critical condition after reportedly being hit by a driver Tuesday morning on Boylston just south of E Pine.
UPDATE 2:07 PM: SPD reports the woman has died of her injuries.
According to police, the 49-year-old woman was apparently sleeping, “laying in the roadway” when the driver exited her parking garage onto Boylston:
She did not see the sleeping pedestrian laying in the roadway and drove over her. The driver stayed on scene and cooperated with police. A Drug Recognition Expert evaluated her and found no signs of impairment.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators at (206) 684-8923.
The 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.
Original report: Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the scene by a 911 caller just after 6:30 AM. The driver was initially reported to have left the scene. A later East Precinct radio update reported that the collision was not a hit and run.
Seattle Fire says it treated a woman in her 40s along the west curb of Boylston and rushed her to Harborview in critical condition.
Boylston between Pike and Pine was closed to traffic during the response.
There were no reported arrests.
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The drivers on these streets in Pike and Pine are wild. I look both ways like 8 times and never assume someone is actually going to stop because they often donβt or roll slow thru the stop.
Did you read the article? The woman that got run over was sleeping in the middle of the road, and the car that hit her was exiting a parking garage. So the driver probably didnβt see the person depending on the grade of the exit ramp and other factors like if there was any oncoming traffic. Yes, the whole area sucks at driving but your comment sounds like you just glanced at the headline.
I think Hillery likely wrote the comment before the update about the sleeping person (that part wasn’t mentioned when the article first went live.) Either way, I tend to agree that drivers on Pike and Pine can be wild but same could be said for many parts of the hill.
The intersection is a 4 way stop… It should be practically impossible to hit someone if you actually stop and are paying any attention at all, much less hit them so hard they are in critical condition.
To me, the article reads more like a Boylston jaywalking incident just south of the intersection.
Drivers know that SPD is limited to what they can stop you for due to both staffing and policy limitations so they have become much more brazen when it comes to following traffic laws.
OK… I rescind my previous comment, given the new information….
How in God’s name do you not see an entire person in the roadway? The sun is well up by 6:30 am. This should be a vehicular manslaughter charge.
I would not advocate sleeping in the street without hi-vis gear, or maybe some cones.
I don’t think that someone sleeping in the roadway can be considered a pedestrian.