Early morning accident on Market St.

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A car slammed into a utility pole on Market St. near 3rd Ave. just after 3 a..m. overnight, and the driver was trapped inside the vehicle.

Firefighters sawed off the top of the car to extract the 27-year-old man, who was taken to Harborview Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. My Ballard reader James shot these photos of the aftermath just before 6 a.m.

For more details, Silver followed the accident in the forum here.

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9 thoughts to “Early morning accident on Market St.”

  1. it seems like they're always sawing off the tops of cars.

    if I ever want a convertible, I just need to drive into a large, stationary object and wait for SFD to arrive.

  2. Inefficient, but effective.

    You know, of course, that they actually *cut* the tops off of cars with an amazingly sexy power tool called the “Jaws of Life.” I got to see one at the Seafood Festival. Hope that's the closest I ever get to one. ;-)

    Hey – here's a fundraising idea for SFD: $10 lets you use the Jaws of Life to cut pieces off of a dead car! Way cooler than the sledgehammer I got to use at the Wallingford Wurst festival, and probably safer than darting between cars at stoplights with boots in your hands!

  6. Since we really don't know, it could have just been asleep at the wheel after working a late shift, but drunk isn't exactly out of the question.
    Either way, let's hope he's ok soon and this is just a lesson learned and not a life changing injury. Lucky nobody else was killed or hurt.

  8. Drunk or asleep at the wheel are pretty much the same thing – a selfish decision that shows you lack the responsibility to be behind the wheel.

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