Two hurt in DUI crash near Vancouver
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Two people were injured in a DUI crash outside of Vancouver Saturday morning.
It happened at around 7:15 a.m. in the intersection of State Route 503 and Northeast 119th Avenue in the Orchards Area.
Washington State Trooper Will Finn said a drunk driver went through a red light and hit another car, which rolled onto its top.
Both drivers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Finn said. Their names have not been released.
Neither car had any passengers, Finn said.
7:15AM? A little early in the day to be drinking.
Some people are so gauche!
It,s NE 119 STREET, not avenue, big difference.
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@Welfair Chick Clearly it isn't too you.  I'm pretty sure others would disagree.
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@Welfair Chick Perhaps you should change your "hobby" to learning how to properly construct a sentence and spell.
The sky looks more like an evening sky, rather than a morning sky. If welfair chick is right - then KATU really needs to do a better job in getting the facts straight.Â
@washcomom Its the morning sky, facing north, shadows to the left, sun in the east. Morning!  Besides, the lack of traffic at this intersection is another clue its morning.
The person who almost killed some people will get a slap on the wrist, and a funny story to tell his friends. But if you download the wrong pictures, sleep with the wrong person, or someone sees something, you can get a mandatory sentence of 10 years and have register your life away.Â
That is one brutal crash.This is one of the reasons why I traded my sport bike in for a big American car with air bags located in several places.
@noneofyourbizzness Ok, I hate to make light of a serious situation but...  your post got me thinking about airbags for bicycles!  A new business idea?!?
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@CTWUIt's never a good thing to feed the trolls.
@Evan Mansfield It's never a good thing to feed the trolls.
@Welfair Chick @CTWU So you have it on equally good authority that none of the posters that have posted or will post are either friends or family of either of the two drivers?!?
@Evan Mansfield @Welfair ChickPeople can be heartless and cruel. That is especially true in these online forums. We have to use some restraint when posting and remember these are real people whose lives were impacted.Â
Having said that, I have to know, what makes the victims experts on what is funny and what isn't?
@Evan Mansfield @Welfair Chick Please see the comment I made for Tashalynn (and you) below!!!
@Tashalynn I'm sorry for the situation your family is left to deal with after the other guy decided he was "perfectly fine".
However, these forums are NOT the place for you or Evan Mansfield to be posting or reading. Â People here can be heartless and cruel -- hiding behind their screen names to get a good laugh or to simply upset you guys. Â Don't let them.
Also, both of you have information that you can't be posting here! Â There will obviously be a criminal trial (and, possibly, a civil one). Â The information you *may* post could be used against your friend/family member. Â The last thing I'm sure you would want would be for Hughes to get away, again, with another slap on the wrist for a DUI.
So, stay close to your friends and family and give Mr. Burke a well-deserved, albeit gentle, hug, and be there to support him and his immediate family and ignore the jerks here! Â And, again, no comments about what happened! Â It is too easy to accidentally make a comment that could be used against Mr. Burke in a trial that would result in Hughes getting off free and clear.
@Welfair Chick @Evan Mansfield funny is the last thing that comes to mind in a near death situation. and something you might want to run by yourself the next time you comment on something "its only funny if the victim thinks its funny"
We have bike lanes why not drunk lanes or a time window when drunks can drive home after work
I have walked from a bar to look at the aftermath of a person in persuit of the police running the light at SE 122nd and division and crashing and causing a five car wreck. Only one news blip because a car crash in NW swamped the news quota of wrecks
@Bert Somebody was chasing the police?
@NGerblansky Sometimes you feel like a nut.
Sometimes you don't.
@Bert                                                                                                                                                                  My husband worked on the corner of 122nd and Division for several years. That is an exciting corner, a lot going on there just about everyday.
Looks like there plenty of red lights visible to anyone, except those that couldn't see double, but were nodding off after an apparent all-nighter?
@jpk That's right in front of my old High School Prairie. Lucky it wasn't a little later or when school was in session. Those are kind of considered "country" roads out there so people tend to drive faster and more careless... even with the ditches and stuff.
@Liberty4_WA  That area is far from being a "country road". Urban expansion took care of that years ago.Â
@jbloe @wondering @Liberty4_WAÂ
Sure it is!Â
It's a road.
It's in a country.   ;-P
@wondering @Liberty4_WA Yep. This is no longer a country road.
DUI at 7:30 AM? WTH? Hope the innocent driver has a speedy recovery. As to the drunk...
@wondering  He'll probably be out and driving again before the injured innocent.
Put the drunk back in the car, take it to the wrecking yard and crush the car.
@danoseknows  Ah, if only...
Why do always innocent people have to suffer?
@sophie.smith So that people have something to talk about on these forums.
Do you realize how boring life would be without having a chance to gossip about others?
"Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!"
-- Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias
yoda ?
drunk at 7 am...? wow
@Nuclear-XÂ You realize there are people that work graveyard shifts, right? Â For them, having a couple of beers after work could be a reason -- not an excuse for driving drunk, but not everyone does the M-F, 8-5 thing.
@Nuclear-X You saying you have never gone to and "after party" after the bar and partied on with people till the sun came up? :P I can't count the times.... BUT... I either slept it off, had a ride, or called cab.
@KATUNews oh no. Should be charged with felony DUI just due to severity of the crash not based on how many dui's he has. Case by case basis