One man was killed and another seriously injured in a fiery crash early Saturday morning on Bremerton’s Sixth Street, after a car believed to be speeding crashed into heavy equipment parked for a city streets project.
The crash occurred near the intersection with Chester Street, just blocks west of Warren Avenue, around 1:20 a.m., Bremerton Fire Department Assistant Chief John Payne confirmed. A BFD report indicated that the car may have been speeding, based on evidence of tire marks, and had initially hit a sign on Sixth Street alerting drivers to a shift of lanes. Lanes are currently shifted to accommodate an ongoing project on the south side of the street. The car then likely went into a spin, according to the report, and collided with a piece of heavy machinery on the street before striking a retaining wall of a home along Sixth.
One man was ejected from the car and first responders found a second man, the passenger, inside the car. The car then caught fire, and by the time a neighbor and Bremerton police officers pulled the passenger from the car he had died, Payne said, citing the fire department’s report. The unresponsive man outside the car, believed to be the driver, was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with what Payne described as “very serious injuries.” His condition Saturday afternoon was not known…