On March 27, 2012 at around 2:00 a.m. a U.S Flagged tug Patrice McAllister caught fire with six people aboard in Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard rescue crews responded to the vessel located seven miles south of Prince Edward Point, Ontario. One injured…
Sysco Seattle Inc. is recalling 16,800 pounds of ground beef patties due to risk of contamination by E. coli bacteria. The meat originated in Canada, a product of New Food Classics of Burlington, Ontario, and may have been tainted by the potentially deadly bacteria E. coli 0157:H7. The patties were…
Early this morning an SUV crashed through the wall of the bedroom of a Kirkland home where the homeowner slept and then burst into flames. Prior to the crash, the driver lost control of the vehicle, plowed across the lawns of two homes and crashed through a car-port, fence and…
Washington State University was recently fined $82,500 by the U.S. Department of Education for campus safety violations, which was reduced to $15,000 by a federal administrative judge. The fine is for violations in 2007 of a campus crime reporting law which requires notifications of potential threats to students and employees.…
At around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 20 there was a head on collision on an I-5 ramp at the I-90 interchange involving a vehicle traveling the wrong way. One person was killed in the crash and multiple others were injured. Those injured in car accidents and the surviving families…
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 a 200-foot section of dry dock containing the 140-foot tug Invader sunk causing the tug to capsize at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Washington. The dry dock began sinking on Saturday evening and stopped at approximately 12 p.m., Sunday, after making contact with the…
A school bus overturned on the morning of March 12, 2012 on a central Washington highway outside of Quincy, Washington, injuring dozens of children, including three seriously, before coming to rest at the edge of a field, authorities said. According to news reports, the bus veered off the road, overcorrected and rolled on Highway…
On Thursday, February 23, 2012, a propane tank exploded at the Picnic Point Waste Water Treatment Plant in Edmonds, Washington. The blast injured five workers at the plant and they were taken to Harborview Medical Center for burns related to the blast. Two of the workers have life-threatening injuries. According to news accounts,…
Throughout 2011, the media reported widely on the prevalence of concussions and other traumatic brain injury sustained by children and young athletes. A recently released study indicates that as the public’s awareness of this issue increases, the number of young athletes being treated for recreationally-sustained head injurieshas also increased. The…
Over the last week, Seattle has been hit with a major snow and ice storm that has resulted in hundreds of motor vehicle collisions. There are several steps you can take as a motorist to prevent a collision in snow and ice. First, when following behind other vehicles, you need…