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#1 Lightning

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Posted 24 November 2015 - 01:35 AM

Poor Cascades...

 

Can't catch a break.  First a jogger in Tacoma is killed literally running into a train, and now a car "dies" on South Lander Street in SODO, Seattle.  Sigh.

 

From KOMO.


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Posted 24 November 2015 - 02:03 AM

The train involved was northbound #516, which runs Portland-Seattle-Vancouver.   The incident also affected southbound #509 Seattle-Portland-Eugene, which was held in Seattle until the incident was cleared.  The last southbound Sounder commuter train was also delayed.



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Posted 25 November 2015 - 06:56 PM

Not surprising to me, it was an SUV involved, not a car.  Update from KOMO, 11/24/15:

 


Driver bails out seconds before Amtrak train plows into SUV

 

The driver of an SUV is lucky to be alive after the vehicle took a huge hit from an Amtrak train in South Seattle, police said.

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Posted 25 November 2015 - 11:26 PM

And judging by the fact that it didn't have license plates yet, it appears it had just been picked up new at the near-by SODO Honda of Seattle showroom.  Way to go!  NOT! 


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Posted 26 November 2015 - 01:52 AM

That might have been a Test Drive.  Mission accomplished!!  :lol:



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