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Four people were injured Tuesday night in a two-car collision on Highway 99 South. Both cars ended upside down.

The collision occurred at about 10:40 p.m. in the 2300 block of 99, just south of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

According to the Seattle Police, a Honda Civic was going southbound at a high rate speed when it collided with a Mitsubishi Mirage, which was also going southbound.

The impact send the Honda veering off the highway; it came to rest upside down on the railroad tracks west of the roadway. The Mitsubishi ended upside down in the road.

The driver of the Honda, who was alone in the car, was taken to Harborview Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Three people in the Mitsubishi were taken for treatment at area hospitals; all were said to have non-life threatening injuries.

Southbound 99 was closed for several hours.
Generally speaking, when one is in an accident involving a motor vehicle, there are certain rules of thumb to follow:

• Do not give a recorded or written statement.
• Take photographs of the property damage and have them developed at once. Take photographs at the scene with your cell phone to show the property damage in the street and where the cars end up after the initial impact and collision before you move your car. Do not use a Polaroid.
• Do not sign anything without a lawyer reviewing it first!
• Do not discuss any matters concerning your injuries with the at-fault insurance company. You are under no obligation to give this information and should discuss nothing but the damage to your car and the need for a rental car or “loss of use” compensation. Remember to be on guard for the clever insurance adjuster who may try to trap you into giving an incomplete statement. Simply do not discuss the accident with the claims adjuster.

IF you have been injured in a Lynnwood car accident we welcome you to contact our Lynnwood Car Accident Attorneys for a free consultation.

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Divers recovered a body from Lake Padden Saturday afternoon, one day after a canoe tipped over and one of its two occupants disappeared.

The dead man is believed to be Clay Weden, 28, Bellingham police reported. His boating companion, Cole B. Smith, 28, was rescued shortly after the accident and was taken to a hospital for treatment for exposure.

Police went to the lake early Friday afternoon after receiving a cellphone call reporting that a canoe had capsized and its occupants were in the water calling for help. A police officer and an off-duty Bellingham firefighter tried to rescue the men using the firefighter’s two stand-up paddle boats.

They rescued Smith but could not find Weden. A search of the lake, shoreline and nearby trails by two fire departments and other agencies was called off Friday night because of darkness.

Divers from the Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan County rescue teams found the body Saturday.

Approximately 20-30 people die in boating accidents every year in Washington State.

Contact our Washington Boat Accident Lawyers if you or a loved one has been injured in a Maritime Accident in Lynnwood.

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Maybe that ribbon of pavement connecting River Road to the city of Tacoma should be renamed “Pay Street.”

A radar-triggered camera erected on the Bay Street curve near the Emerald Queen Casino snapped photos of close to 2,100 speeders during its first week of operation, city officials said Thursday.

Nearly 830 tickets – at $101 a pop – already have been mailed and another nearly 1,260 are being prepared for the registered owners of cars caught speeding between Dec. 2 and Wednesday, Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said Thursday.

The infractions are treated like a parking ticket and do not go on a driver’s record.

If that rate holds, the camera could generate up to $11 million a year in citations.

“Those numbers surprised us,” Fulghum said. “It’s a fairly sharp corner and people take it too fast coming from River Road.”

By contrast, another speed camera erected recently near Downing Elementary School in the city’s North End has yet to record a speeder, Fulghum said.

“We expected some violators,” he said. “We knew there were some concerns there.”

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An elderly woman has died from injuries suffered in a weekend shooting in northeast Kansas that also left her granddaughter and two great-granddaughters dead.

Kansas’ attorney general on Wednesday announced the death of 89-year-old Dorothy Wight of Osage County.

Spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett says Wight died at a Topeka hospital on Tuesday, three days after the shootings at her home outside Burlingame.

Forty-six-year-old James Kraig Kahler, a former Columbia, Mo., city official, already is charged with capital murder in the deaths of his 44-year-old estranged wife, Karen, and their daughters, 18-year-old Emily and 16-year-old Lauren. Dorothy Wight was Karen Kahler’s grandmother.

Authorities say the Kahler’s 10-year-old son, Sean, also was at the home at the time of the shootings but was not injured.

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