A community of friends is mourning the deaths of three people, killed by a fleeing vehicle, as safety advocates are poised to push the state to fix on-going issues with its dangerous roads.
In all, five pedestrians were struck by a vehicle eyewitnesses say was speeding away from a traffic stop on Airport Road in Everett.
It happened early Saturday morning. Three people died because of that crash; two others were badly injured.
Still a lot of grief for the community after that tragedy. That grief embodied in this memorial friends of the victims have erected. They are mostly unhoused and what happened here has hit them hard.
This, as traffic safety advocates plan to take their fight to Olympia.
A deep sadness lingers here, hours after five people were struck by a car eyewitnesses say was fleeing a police traffic stop. Now three of them are gone. One was like a son to Lisa Hutchinson.
“He was killed instantly, on impact,” said Hutchinson, her voice breaking, “and we couldn’t find him at first.”