Five people were sent to area hospitals and an intersection was closed for several hours Tuesday following a three-car accident south of Alderwood Middle School.
The accident happened shortly before 1:30 p.m., Tuesday when a blue Acura Legend apparently ran through a four-way stop sign at 28th Avenue W. and 204th Street SW. and collided with two other vehicles, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rich Niebusch said.
A 31-year-old Lynnwood woman driving a red Honda was among the most seriously hurt. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the accident, Niebusch said.
A 19-year-old Shoreline man, a passenger in the Acura, also was taken to Harborview.
The 22-year-old Lynnwood man driving the Acura, along with a 40-year-old woman and 17-year-old girl from Lynnwood in a third car, were taken to local hospitals.
Names and conditions of the victims were not available at The Enterprise deadline.
According to a preliminary investigation, the Acura was going southbound on 28th Avenue and didn’t stop at the intersection on 204th. The Acura collided with a Honda Civic going eastbound on 204th, then glanced the passenger side of a northbound Volkswagen Touareg. The Acura hit a rock in front of the Bridgeport apartments at 20407 28th Ave. W. and stopped. The building was apparently not damaged, according to acting manager Randy Vires. The Honda Civic, meanwhile, ended up in a ditch and damaged a wooden backyard fence of a house.
“If this happened three hours from now, there’d be cars parked there,” Vires said, pointing at the apartment building. “This would be an eight-car pileup. I normally park in the spot where (the Acura) is now, and I almost didn’t go to work today.”
Crews from Snohomish County Fire District 1 and the Lynnwood Fire Department took victims to area hospitals.
Authorities closed the intersection shortly as part of the investigation and detoured traffic onto other area streets. Deputies said evidence was scattered around the accident scene, including a windshield wiper found approximately 50 feet away from the scene.
Tuesday’s accident was the latest in what some residents said is a problem with speeding. The posted speed limit on 28th Avenue W. is 25 mph, and both streets are two lanes.
“This has been an ongoing thing,” said resident David Delamater. “We have fought our county government to get something done. We’ve got motorcycles going down here doing 50, 60, 70, 80, big trucks coming down here.”
An investigation could take several days, Niebusch said.
Bill Sheets, a reporter with The Herald in Everett, contributed to this report.
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