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| Accident scene on N 175th Photo courtesy KCSO |
The King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) has confirmed neighbors' reports that five vehicles were involved in the collision at Wallingford and N 175th on Monday morning June 23, 2025.
Three people were seriously injured, two in critical condition, and transported to Harborview by three aid cars from Shoreline Fire.
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| Shoreline Fire had to cut the top off the car to remove the patient for transport to Harborview Photo by Douglas Aaron Nation |
Shoreline Fire had to extricate one patient by cutting the top off the car.
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| Photo by Douglas Aaron Nation |
One neighbor, who lives a block away from the scene, reported that the impact made his house shake.
N 175th was eventually blocked from Meridian to Aurora during the emergency response, investigation, and clean up.
Detectives from the KCSO Major Accident Response and Reconstruction Unit responded and continue to investigate this incident.
I believe this is the stretch of road that is being considered for traffic speed enforcement cameras - or maybe this is just west of the proposed boundary. In any case, there is too much traffic, too much speed, too many inattentive drivers and too little consideration for others trying to get where they are going at the same time. Chill, people!
ReplyDeleteThe road is overbuilt. Make it two lanes except at intersections. The chronic speeding problem will disappear, there will be fewer crashes, parents will feel more comfortable walking to school with their kids, traffic flow will be exactly the same, and the upcoming roadworks project will cost about 80% less. You don't need four lanes to carry 20,000 vehicles per day. Look it up.
ReplyDeleteEverywhere they have switched it to two lanes has been a traffic nightmare. Richmond Beach is an example of that. It used to not have any problems and now it’s a constant single lane of traffic where nobody can pull out from a side street with no break in traffic. Another example is over by scriber high school that used to flow just perfectly at normal speeds and now it is a mess with more risk for rear ending. 175th is a major traffic thoroughfare to the freeway and should flow like 205th. The school should only have an entrance on the backside and nobody should be walking on the front side of it. The problem was the design of the school and location. As they build more and more condos, this is going to become a greater problem and I think they’re already in trouble. They have to think about the roads prior to thinking about housing increases. They did not seek a sub area plan and the city council is far from cutting edge with their 12 foot sidewalks and narrow roads with bike lanes on main roads. It’s a big old disaster that does not exist in other cities and then you throw some chip seal on the road and thousands of ugly 6 plexes squished in between single family housing and welcome to tacky Shoreline.
DeleteUh, no. Even with four lanes, 175th already backs up nearly to Trader Joe's during the afternoon commute. A road diet here would lead to gridlock so severe that frustrated drivers would divert to all the other east/west residential streets in Meridian Park. I'm sure the dog walkers in those neighborhoods wouldn't appreciate the resulting river of traffic.
DeleteIt's a fantasy to think that we can build all this housing, adding thousands of people to Shoreline, while dieting every arterial. Is the idea to make us prisoners in our own homes?
Isn't this a 25mph street? wth
ReplyDeleteJust because some people can't drive, it doesn't mean that everyone should be subjected to the continuously encroaching surveillance of traffic cameras.
ReplyDeleteIt's seductive to support an ever more overbearing nanny state under the promise of increased safety. Your autonomy drips away bit by bit, until you wake up one day to find that you're watched from the moment you awaken until the moment you go to bed.
That island of plants by the intersection for the on & off ramp eats up space that could allow for better spacing for those trying to turn left onto northbound I-5. It would alleviate SOME, not all of the congestion. And when there’s congestion people get frustrated and speed more if they can. That same day I saw another Toyota 4Runner heading north on Meridian cut people off hoping to turn left onto 175th. The driver was already angry, and got angrier at the sight of the road closed and did this extremely dangerous weaving to continue onto Meridian (Northbound) going from the far left late to the far right lane shoulder to speed up and cut off all the other cars going at speed limit. People run off emotion. And congestion of traffic fuels that emotion and therefore speeding, and increases accidents like this. Those are facts
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