Herald staff
EVERETT — Icy roads caused multiple crashes Wednesday morning.
In one case, an Everett police officer in training was injured on Highway 526. He suffered a wrist injury and hip pain, Sgt. Maryjane Hacker said.
He was taken in an ambulance to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
It happened about 7 a.m. There were collisions about the same time in both directions of the highway.
The officer in training was riding with another officer when they stopped to investigate a crash. They had just gotten outside their vehicle and were moving to don yellow traffic-safety vests, Hacker said.
An oncoming car struck the squad car and the officer in training, who was thrown onto the hood.
Separately, a 36-year-old man was seriously hurt in a weather-related wreck along Highway 9 in Lake Stevens. The man was northbound in a car when he apparently lost traction about 6 a.m., said acting Lt. Craig Valvick with the Lake Stevens Police Department.
The car slid into oncoming traffic and was struck by a truck.
The man was hospitalized. The truck driver was unhurt.
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