An image from Monday night’s scene at 14th and John via the CHS Facebook Group
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- Scooter rider critically injured: A 28-year-old man was in critical condition after an electric scooter crash on Broadway early Monday. According to Seattle Fire and emergency radio updates, 911 reported the crash involving in the 1700-block of Broadway near the Seattle Central Bookstore just before 1 AM. According to SFD, the rider struck a “fixed metal object” and suffered a head injury and facial trauma. The rider was reportedly not wearing a helmet. The victim was transported to Harborview in critical condition, SFD says. Seattle bike and scooter riders are no longer required by law to wear helmets.
- Driver strikes pedestrian on E John: A person crossing the street was struck by a driver and sent to the hospital with a serious head Monday night on the hill at 14th and John. Seattle Fire and police were called to the 1300-block of E John just after 11:30 PM to the reported collision involving a driver in a black BMW SUV. The driver reportedly remained at the scene. According to emergency radio updates, the woman in her 20s suffered a head injury and was in and out of consciousness before being transported in stable condition to Harborview. There were no reported arrests. E John was closed to traffic during the response.
- Cherry standoff: A situation involving a standoff with a man reportedly making gun threats from a 700 E Cherry residence was resolved with the suspect safely in custody, SPD reports:
At 16:22hrs, multiple reporting parties called 911 to report a male pointing a gun at them in the 700 block of Cherry Street. The victims stated the male appeared agitated and thought he was going to shoot them. When officers arrived on scene, they located the residence, secured the location, and set up containment. Police obtained the identity of the suspect and a contact phone number. Officers initiated dialogue with the suspect and were able to have the suspect exit from his residence. The male suspect was arrested for harassment.
SPD says a warrant was completed for the residence to recover all weapons from the building. - Boylston false alarm: A reported shooting Monday in a 400 block of Boylston Ave E building turned out to be a false alarm. A large police and Seattle Fire presence arrived at the building just after 4:30 PM after someone reported hearing gunfire in a possible self-inflicted inside. Seattle Police checked out the building but reported no victim could be located.
- 12th Ave driver vs. biker: A bicyclist struck by a driver Thursday at 12th and Mercer declined treatment after the crash. The incident was reported just after 10 PM along 12th Ave. Arriving Seattle Fire units found the victim in his 60s at the scene but the rider declined medical evaluation. SPD reported no arrests.
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I shudder when I see the injuries and disruptions caused by drivers striking pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s possible that pedestrians or bicyclists are at fault or moved too fast for the poor clueless and distracted drivers, but at least pedestrians have the right of way. Certainly, on John Street, cars go much too fast for the two or three blocks that they can. And you never see speed limit enforcement.
Same is now true for sidewalks. Just today an ebiker tried to force me off the sidewalk ramp for the disabled. Threatened to punch me out. Then, a little later, a scooter moving fast grazed me. Could have knocked me into traffic.I’m obviously disabled and, as foot traffic, was where I was supposed to be.
Those scooters shouldn’t be on the sidewalk period…There’s a big @SS sticker on them that tells riders that explicitly and probably neither should the e-bike… bikes are allowed on sidewalks, but not in businesses districts and are supposed to yield to pedestrians.
I’m a cyclist and I don’t recommend sidewalk cycling if you’re over about 9, unless there truly is no safe alternative.
Thank you for your comments, made without any relevant facts regarding the actual incident, and with an obvious bias against “poor clueless and distracted drivers.” Your opinion is certainly much appreciated.
I ride up and down John all the time. Drivers are super attentive and generous with the road.
These comments are important and remind us to look out for our disabled friends and neighbors because we are decent people. Let’s be better.
“. Seattle bike and scooter riders are no longer required by law to wear helmets.”
Why on God’s green earth did the City drop this requirement? It will mean many lives loss.
Because they are meant for short term rides and nobody would use them if they had to carry helmets around with them. Not excusing it, just the way it is in most cities that rent these things. I know when our family visited D.C. we weren’t carrying around bike helmets so we could scooter around the Mall. Problem with Seattle is the hills. I had some young woman on a scooter blast past me on my RadBike (yes I was wearing a helmet, she not) down a hill the other day. Took my breath away because hitting one wrong bump or an object in the road it probably would have been curtains for her.
More like because the short term rental companies were probably hemorrhaging money trying to keep up with stocking and cleaning helmets when it was still a requirement here, not to mention that meant that bikes (scooters weren’t authorized yet) couldn’t available just be anywhere – they needed to be at specific points that also had a helmet dispenser..
You better believe that the short term rental companies pushed hard to get the helmet requirements removed.
reversing the helmet requirement was pushed as an equity issue since people of color and the homeless were more ofetn often cited for not wearing one. That was one of the main arguments made to remove the helmet law-equity.
There you go Glenn, actually providing information from the process.
Sure – and that this issue just happened to come up be pushed hard when the scooter/ebike companies were negotiating with the city was just a coincidence.. I’ll bet…
There are better ways to deal with it than rescinding helmet laws entirely. That only benefits rental companies at the expense of brains.