The accident occurred at around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of 1st Street and New York Avenue in northwest Washington, according to D.C. fire department spokesman Ken Crosswhite.

According to Crosswhite, around 16 children that were occupants of the buses suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are under evaluation.

No further details regarding the accident have been released. The accident is being investigated by authorities.

Angela M. Bueno, 43, of Wapato, was driving southbound on Campbell road when she rain into two power poles supporting two large regulators that then fell onto the car and burned, according to the Washington State Patrol. Bueno was killed in the accident.

One of the regulators contained cooking oil containing hazardous PCB’s and leaked over 50 gallons of it.

Pacific Power cleaned and decontaminated the spill, which cut off electricity service to around 700 customers for six hours.

The accident is being investigated. It is unknown what caused the collision.

Edward Denson and Katelen Blacklaw, both of Woodland, were the two accident victims identified by Cowlitz County Coroner Tim Davidson.

Apparently the two teenagers were standing in the northbound tracks while waiting for a much louder, southbound freight train to pass. While the loud train passed, their backs were turned to the oncoming Amtrak train and they were struck and killed around 7:10 p.m. Tuesday.

It is believed that they never heard the warning whistles of the oncoming train, Cowlitz County authorities said.

The teenagers were both freshmen at Woodland High School.

David Kenny Ross, 14, was kayaking on American Lake March 1 when he was struck by a boater. Ross was transported to Mary Bridge children’s hospital in Tacoma with a head injury and has remained unconscious since the accident.

Pierce County prosecutors have decided not to file felony charges against the boater responsible for the accident as there was no evidence that the boater was driving recklessly, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or intentionally hit the kayaker, according to Deputy Prosecutor Tim Jones.

It is possible that the city of Lakewood may still file misdemeanor charges for watercraft violations.

Desirea Casey, 21, of Dayton failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of State Route 12 and Hussey road and collided into the semi-truck. Two passengers in Casey’s vehicle, Courtney Ponticelli, 20, and Heather Mercado, 19, were transported to the hospital with injuries. The driver of the semi-truck was not injured in the accident. Casey was also transported to the hospital but was treated and released.

The accident occurred at about 12:00 a.m. Saturday. The intersection was blocked for over three hours.

None of the victims involved were wearing seatbelts. It is believed that drugs or alcohol were factors in the accident and Casey is being charged with vehicular assault, said state troopers.

The accident occurred shortly before 7 a.m. Monday about 10 miles south of Forks. There were no students traveling on the bus, just the driver who suffered minor injuries, said Trooper Krista Hedstrom in Bremerton.

Hedstrom reported ice on the roadway played a factor in the accident. Patrol is investigating the accident, which will include the inspection of the bus and truck for mechanical problems.

Traffic was backed up for several hours due to no detour available.

At about 4:25 p.m. Saturday, a 33-year-old Redmond man was driving a 2000 Honda Civic when the he lost control of the vehicle when it hydroplaned on state Route 202 near the intersection with Ames Lake Road and entered oncoming westbound traffic where it collided into a 2005 Kia Sedona, according to the Washington State Patrol.

A 32-year-old female passenger in the Civic was pronounced dead at the accident scene, stated troopers.

The passengers inside the Sedona, a 38-year-old woman who was driving, a 35-year-old man and two boys, ages 8 and 6, all from Redmond, were transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with unspecified injuries.

It is believed that the wet weather conditions was a factor in the accident, which remains under investigation, said State Patrol investigators.

The accident occurred around 8:00 p.m. Saturday on 9 Canyon Road. The vehicle was traveling on 9 Canyon Road around 8:00 p.m. Saturday when the car rolled over several times, according to Deven Hellend with Benton County Fire District 1.

“The car obviously lost control at some point, rolled several times and came to a rest on its top, and the victim was thrown from the vehicle and killed,” said Hellend.

The debris from the accident covered a quarter mile area. 9 Canyon Road was closed and no one was allowed anywhere near the accident. Benton County Sheriff’s Deputies have not released any more information pending family notification.

The accident occurred in a remote area of Nine Canyon Road. According the deputies the vehicle rolled over twice, and the driver, who was the sole passenger in the vehicle, was found just a short distance away. The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but no other vehicles were involved in the crash.

The Nine Canyon area, where the accident occurred, was scattered with beer bottles and according to people who live nearby, parties are the only reason people go to the location.

“Unless you have some business up there, or live up there, it’s really a no man’s land,” said neighbor Carole Haegen. “I don’t know of anybody that goes up there. There’s nothing up there.”

The Sheriff’s Department has not released the victim’s identity and no further information was released.

]]> http://personalinjurylawyers360.com/young-man-killed-in-roll-over-accident/feed/ 0 http://personalinjurylawyers360.com/coach-killed-in-bowling-alley-accident/ http://personalinjurylawyers360.com/coach-killed-in-bowling-alley-accident/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:43:04 +0000 ashley http://personalinjurylawyers360.com/?p=858 A coach at Spokane Community College in Washington died Friday morning after a tragic accident at the college’s bowling alley.

Erik Anderson, 38, was named head cross country coach for CCS men and women in 2004 and was previously an assistant and successful coach at CCS and Clark College in Vancouver, Wash.

Anderson died while he working on bowling alley equipment in the Spokane Community College Lair-Student Center. Primary investigations show that the faculty member was killed by a piece of bowling equipment. There were students in the alley at the time of the accident but no one witnessed the fatal accident.