Pedestrian killed after being hit by car in Ballard

Meghan Walker Ballard

Update: Seattle Police report that a 65-year-old woman was killed and one of her dogs was seriously injured after being stuck by a car at 9:30pm Monday night. The 34-year-old female driver was uninjured, and police say there were signs of impairment; she was arrested and booked into King County Jail.

According to the police report, the pedestrian was walking her dogs northbound in an unmarked crosswalk at 14th Ave NW and NW 46th St when the driver in a black BMW traveling eastbound failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection, hitting the woman and her dogs.

From Seattle Police:

The woman suffered significant injuries and was transported to Harborview Medical Center, where she later died from her injuries. One of her dogs, a pug, was also seriously injured and was transported to a veterinarian. The woman’s second dog, an unidentified breed, ran from the scene and was not located.

Original: A woman is in the hospital after being hit by a car near the Trader Joe’s in Ballard late Monday night.

Seattle Fire says it was a vehicle/pedestrian collision. The (approximately) 45-year-old woman was transported to Harborview via SFD medics in serious condition.

Seattle Police apprehended one person at the scene, according to KOMO News.

 

47 thoughts to “Pedestrian killed after being hit by car in Ballard”

          1. Clearly you’re an idiot. The article was ‘updated’ (that’s that thing in bold up at the top of the article). My original post was predicated on the ‘original’ (that’s the other thing in bold underneath the bolded ‘updated’ post) post. I suppose reading comprehension escaped you Virginia.
            Either way, a woman is dead, so way to troll me about my reading comprehension skills instead of expressing some sympathy.

          3. I’m an impartial observer. I’ve read all the posts. My unbiased opinion is that Virginia is an idiot. My ruling is final.

    1. Maybe your mother was also under the influence?

      Car driver should have stopped regardless of whether someone was chasing a dog or not.

      Has this dog been found?

      1. “Car driver should have stopped”

        Really? You regularly run out in front of cars doing the speed limit but less than their braking distance?

        Good luck with that one Wendy. You’ll need it.

        1. According to the police report, the pedestrian was walking her dogs northbound in an unmarked crosswalk at 14th Ave NW and NW 46th St when the driver in a black BMW traveling eastbound failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection, hitting the woman and her dogs.

          Well Simon, luckily this time of the year, you’ll have no problem finding a crow so you can eat it.

        2. As much care should be taken to protect the safety of people outside of our cars as is taken to ensure the safety of our car’s occupants. To do it any other way doesn’t make sense, it is demonstrating that the lives of others are not as important as our own lives. This helps to create and perpetuate the very idea of ‘others’ in our culture.

          Our cars should not be able to crush us at low speed. And they should not be able to strike us at higher speeds without risk to the car’s occupants.

          The current situation is unacceptable. The effect it has on our daily lives is profound. It is the core of the reasons we don’t know our neighbors or ourselves, and in general terms is the main reason we live our modern lives at such a fevered pitch.

          We’re not talking about energy or ecological concerns. Instead we are considering the immediate physical and cultural environment we surround ourselves with daily. The one where as we go about our business, often just a few feet from us as we work or live, we are exposed to machines that can utterly obliterate us in a way that no other Humans have had to contend with in known history.

          Yet we ignore this situation and its effects on our relationships with each other and our world.

          A shiny new automobile, powerful and sleek, with lines that play off of organic forms, is the primary thrust for Western civilization’s consumer arms race and an elemental part of how our system rewards the common person for ignoring the greater good.

          The ubiquitous use of inhumanely engineered machines such as these has a powerful effect on our sense of self worth and is undeniably detrimental to our safety and our health.

          In the future, the vehicles we surround ourselves with now will be looked upon as just one more horrifically inhumane aspect of our culture, one that much needed social progress eventually managed to eliminate, and none too soon.

          Our cars should be engineered to be safe for everyone. They need to made much lighter than they are now, with wheels and bumpers designed in such a way as to minimize the hazards they present and reduce or eliminate the fears they create.

          The vehicles that city dwellers use as daily transportation do not need to be able to go 100mph. As exhilarating and convenient as that luxury is, it is too expensive in more ways than one. Dialing this metric back around 60 percent will result in a spectacular increase in the quality of life for all of us.

          Electric and other alt-fuel vehicles will suddenly make a lot more sense. People power will come first, as it always should. Our children will be more healthy and play more freely… everyone will be more healthy and interact more freely. Differences between us will be less deliberate. We will make more eye contact with each other and we will know our neighbors better.

          Adjustments will be made, leading to a more relaxed and refined pace of life in our great cities.

          More of us, if not most of us, will be able to afford the ownership of such a vehicle. We will all be better off, and we will have made our world a genuinely better place to live.

          2. Dear Ken, there is no way to make a vehicle that will carry you at 30 mph (never mind 100), and will not do serious damage to a pedestrian with whom it collides at that speed. If it was just your bare naked body colliding with them, then at least the damage would be mutual, but not insignificant.

        3. I knew her and her dogs. The dogs are old and can barely walk. No way they were running into the street.

          Also, the driver was drunk and ran a stop sign. Simon and Garin are LOSERS!!!!

          Who defends drunk drivers that killed someone? !!!

    2. Actually, from what the report is saying, the driver both: ran a stop sign, and: was under the influence. Whether this woman was chasing a dog or not, it sounds like the automobile driver is at fault.

      1. Ballard Eater is right. It’s my understanding that If a driver under the influence is involved in an accident, they will be at fault even if the other driver or pedestrian may have been in the wrong. My condolences to the loved ones of the woman who was killed.

  9. Tragic for all.
    Was the dog leashed, as required by law?
    If not, this could be the first human fatality caused by a leash-law violation not involving a dangerous animal.

    1. Every intersection is a crosswalk. Drivers here don’t respect unmarked crosswalks because they barely remember much of the traffic code. Seattle is the city where they yield the right of way to left turning cars for no reason (except to feel important?) and don’t respect the right of way of pedestrians in crosswalks, even marked ones. Heavy police enforcement can change these attitudes.

  11. It was my friend’s Mom that was killed. She was such a sweet and caring woman. She cared often for her grandchilden. This is an utter tragedy for this family and our community.

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