LYNNWOOD — No one was hurt Sept. 20 when a Lynnwood woman backing down her new, very steep driveway ended up driving through the side of her neighbor’s house.
According to Lynnwood police officer Alan Correa, the 28-year-old woman was backing down her driveway with her young daughter, in a new neighborhood off of 36th Avenue W., and as she started to go off the edge tried to correct herself and over corrected and ended up down the other side, landing the back corner of her Toyota Sequoia SUV in her neighbor’s garage. The woman was traumatized and wouldn’t comment on the accident.
Fire, police, and the utility companies all responded and the neighborhood was evacuated because the SUV severed the gas line as it went through. The victim support agency Support 7 also helped out.
According to the dispatch reports natural gas was flowing for at least an hour until Puget Sound Energy crews arrived to turn the gas off.
Lynnwood’s Assistant Fire Chief Tod Gates said after evacuating the neighborhood, fire crews took a defensive stance, staying a safe distance away from the house and waited with hoses until the gas was turned off.
Had things gone wrong, Correa said, this call could have been very disastrous.
Gates and Correa both said because all agencies worked so well together no one was hurt and there was minimal property damage.
Correa added, “and the neighbors were very cooperative with each other and even through there were language barriers they tried to overcome all that had happened. It was really neat to see.”
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