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Crash reports for Lopez Island, WA
Location:
1470 Lopez Sound Rd, Lopez Island, WA 98261, USA
Geometry:
Vehicle swerved into bike path
Injury:
Fatal
Description:
A 15 year-old without a license was driving a 1974 Chevrolet Nova at over 120 miles per hour on Lopez Sound Road - a narrow two-lane road with no shoulders, no center or fog lines, and a posted 35 mph speed limit. There are numerous driveways along the road. The road is advertised as a bike route on internet web sites and the Tour de Lopez, a yearly bicycling event, includes Lopez Sound Road. It was the middle of the vacation season and many tourists and visitors were on the island.
The driver lost control of the car and swerved into a family of cyclists, maiming a seven year-old girl riding a Trail-a-bike attached to her father's bike, narrowly missing the mother and a younger sibling. Sadly, a jogger just behind the cyclists was killed instantly. Due to the excessive speed and incompetence of the driver, neither the cyclists nor the jogger had time to react once the vehicle was in sight. Full report |
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