Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Everett

Sean Heldt's legs got really shrunken that you can see the bones through his skin. Joline Heldt, Sean's Mom isn't used to seeing her son in this condition.She remembers his broad shoulders edging out opponents in rec league basketball games. Now they are a hallmark of muscle atrophy, which has stolen 40 pounds from his frame.Sean Heldt, bedridden in a rehabilitation facility, is in a coma, four...

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One local woman is to be pronounced dead and two young men are sent to Harborview Medical Center after a two separate train collisions happened in Snohomish County. On the same day there was another train accident on the same rail line that involved a Woodinville man of the age of 20, who was struck by a train and was also sent to Harborview Medical center.On Saturday, a teenage girl was killed...

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Along a slushy road on Friday, President Bush's motorcade that was traveling from Washington to the Camp David presidential retreat, was involved in a car accident when it crashed with another car on the Interstate.Generally, in most cases, President Bush is flown in the Marine One helicopter from the South Lawn of the White House to Camp David near Thurmont, MD. In this case, rainy weather was...

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On Sunday morning, a Stanwood man was killed in a fatal collision on State Route 532, reports Washington State Patrol.The two cars were traveling westbound on State Road 532 at 6:20am when one car attempted to pass the other. The passing car failed to get back over into the west lane and crashed head-on with the car traveling eastbound, said Washington State Patrol. The driver of the eastbound...

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A 12-year-old boy has been badly injured in a car wreck when he lost control of the SUV he was driving and crashed with another car on Monday, reports the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office.The boy was transported by ambulance to Oregon Science and Health University Hospital in Portland. His condition was not available immediately, but the sheriff's office reports he is critically injured.The boy...

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Five people died in two days in crashes on ice- and snow-covered roads north of Spokane. Three died just Saturday in a three-car wreck. Weather according to Washington State Patrol was a likely factor for more than a dozen of different collisions."The 3 car crash occurred after a southbound Plymouth Voyager lost traction on U.S. Highway 2 about a mile north of Riverside and, when the driver...

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After seven tireless years Democratic lawmakers think this year that they can finally push House Bill 1214 through. They now realize this is bill is needed more than ever, people are not just talking on cellphones anymore; they are texting too and causing many accidents."A five-car pileup on Interstate 5 in December caused by a driver typing on a BlackBerry has fueled interest in bills...

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Vikings cornerback Fred Smoot will miss the last game of the season due to a broken jaw in five places from a recent car accident.The single car crash, first revealed by Coach Brad Childress at his new conference, happened in Smoot's hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson Police Officer Lee Vance said that the crash occurred early Saturday morning. He said Smoot was in the backseat of the...

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