Personal Injury Law

Alleged Hit and Run Driver Hits Bus, 5 Injured

By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

An alleged hit and run driver, fleeing the scene of one accident, slammed head-on into a Clallam County transit bus. The bus then hit another car. Five people are recovering from injuries suffered when the collision occurred.

The accident took place just before 6 p.m. Tuesday evening, on US Highway 101 near State Route112, west of Port Angeles. According to the Washington State Patrol, a 30-year-old man from California who was driving a pickup truck with a camper shell, had allegedly side swiped an SUV on Euclid Avenue near State Route 117 in Port Angeles and was fleeing that scene.

"The pickup truck that had a camper in its' bed was involved in a minor hit and run collision about a mile and a half, two miles back," said Trooper John Ryan. "The pickup truck continued westbound on 101 eventually crossing over the center line here where it hit head-on with a Clallam County Transit bus."

A small car was pushed off the road after the bus was forced to the right. Both the small car and the bus ended up in a ditch. The California man?s pickup truck rolled over, trapping him inside. The 30-year-old suffered a serious leg injury and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being removed from the wreckage.

Full post as published by Seattle Injury Blog on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).