From a friend of the victim
On Thursday, August 7 around 4 p.m., a resident of Seattle’s Central District was struck by a vehicle in the crosswalk at the intersection of 13th Avenue and Cherry Street. The victim, an Asian man in his 40s, sustained serious injuries including a broken ankle that required surgery, a broken shoulder, and a head laceration. The driver stopped, exited the vehicle, and is believed to have called the ambulance that arrived on the scene, but at present the driver remains at-large with no information currently available from authorities. The victim is calling for any information from the community.
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The vehicle is described by the victim as a golden-ish, light brown car that approached Westbound on Cherry Street and did not stop as it drove through the crosswalk at 13th Avenue. The driver is described as a slender White male, approximately 5’10” and approximately 50-60 years old.
At least three witnesses were also on the scene who may have information about the incident. Witness 1 is described as a middle-aged woman with greyish-white hair who was driving Eastbound on Cherry Street when she witnessed the victim lying in the Eastbound lane of Cherry Street after the collision. Witness 1 assisted the victim by securing the victim’s head and neck with her hands while also directing traffic away from the victim.
Witness 2 is described as a White male cyclist in his 30s with dark brown curly hair wearing a black bicycle helmet and grey/black bicycle suit. The victim recalls that Witness 1 asked Witness 2 if he was in the medical field, to which Witness 2 replied no, but that the ambulance was on its way.
Witness 3 is described as an elderly man who picked up the victim’s earbuds off the street and returned them to the victim’s green gym bag.
Any information about this incident would be greatly appreciated by the victim and his family. Please send any information to : [email protected]
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My thoughts go out to the victim and his family/friends! Crossing there is absolutely terrifying, not least because cars driving east are funneled from two downhill lanes into one, extremely quickly, to preserve street parking (of course) and fucking over both cyclists and pedestrians by incentivizing speeding to beat the light and not have to get stuck behind parked cars in the right lane that quickly ends. Go see it for yourself, it’s lunacy.
There’s rampant speeding and insane driving on this section of Cherry (and beyond) into the very residential heart of the CD because the road is far too wide for cars. There should be speed bumps on Cherry from 12th to at least MLK and wider protected bike lanes…problem solved.
Of course I’m sure cops, fire, and emergency services would have a fit about this, considering they tend to be speed offenders too through this corridor…though for better reasons…but get this folks–proper width bike lanes can (and do) accommodate emergency vehicles. This solution works wonderfully in other countries by functionally creating an emergency HOV lane. Bikes get proper facilities and emergency vehicles can easily bypass more and more traffic depending on how robust the protected network is. Bikes can move far easier than cars on the street in those few times when emergencies occur during bad traffic hours.
Anyone else dream about the streets actually being safe and efficient?
Drivers are getting really aggressive towards pedestrians lately. I was crossing the street at a stop sign when a lady suddenly accelerated at me from a full stop before I’d gotten out of the way, she stopped a foot away yelling at me for walking slow. I’m going to start carrying a brick.