Deadly crashes on Western Washington roads are at their highest number in over 30 years.
February 11, 2024 at 10:09 pm PSTLinzi Sheldon, KIRO 7 NewsDeadly crashes on Western Washington roads are at their highest number in over 30 years and troopers say they are seeing more cases of aggressive driving.
“We’ve only been up in the air for a few minutes here and we already found a vehicle traveling 20 miles an hour over the posted speed limit,” Trooper Anson Statema said as they spotted a car going 80 miles an hour. “We see a lot of… in the last two years, a lot of dangerous driving and drivers,” Statema said. “Really high rates of speed, aggressive driving. More frequent instances of people driving at speeds over 100 miles per hour.”
“It is a significant problem,” Adam Eucker with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Felony Traffic Unit said. “We see the numbers continue to go up.” KIRO 7 spotted a cluster on Evergreen Way through Everett, along 99 and I-5 from downtown Seattle through North Seattle, and from Federal Way through Fife and Tacoma on I-5. The map shows crashes along all major highways.
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