Renton Looking at Other Options to Remove Logjam
The City of Renton is looking at other options to remove a logjam from a footbridge over the Cedar River, now that a contractor has deemed the work to remove it risky.
The logjam built up behind the footbridge to Riverview Park on State Route 169, following last weekend’s major rainstorm that sent the Cedar into a Phase 4 flood alert.
The removal is complicated by the continued high flows on the Cedar.
The river’s level has dropped but still remains above typical flows for this time of year. Friday, the flow was 4,270 cubic feet per second. The previous maximum flow for Jan. 21 was in 1972, at 3,680 cfs.
More rain in the Cascades is expected Friday, which amounts tapering off over the weekend. The National Weather Service has had a flood warning in place all week for the Cedar and Green rivers.
The options include bringing in a crane to lift the logs and other debris from the river, said Todd Black, with the City of Renton Community Services Department.
The crane would sit at or near the parking lot for the park on SR 169. It’s a tight fit, Black said.
“It’s like pick up sticks,” said Black of using a crane. He stressed that’s just one option.
Black said Friday the bridge “is fine,” calling it well-built structurally. The logjam, which continues to build up, is resting against a steel pole designed to take pressure of the bridge in such situationsl
“We are taking it one day at a time,” said Black. He indicated the city could leave the logjam in place “for a period of time.”
There is no cost estimate of how much the removal would cost, he said. The money could come from emergency funds or from insurance, he said.
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State Trooper Injured in Highway 167 Accident
A Washington State Patrol trooper sustained minor injuries after his car collided with another vehicle at about 10 p.m. Dec. 29 along Highway 167 near the Central Avenue exit in Kent.
The 32-year-old trooper was northbound in the Highway 167 high occupancy vehicle lane to respond to another wreck when the driver of a 2008 Chevrolet Aveo lost control on an icy roadway and the vehicles collided.
The driver of the Aveo, a 49-year-old Renton man, suffered serious injuries, according to the State Patrol. Both men were treated at Valley Medical Center in Renton. The trooper was released with minor injuries, according to an e-mail from State Patrol spokeswoman Julie Startup.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation but speed too fast for road conditions was a definite factor, according to the State Patrol.
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Toyota to turn over data from fatal Bellingham crash
The parents of a man killed when his Toyota Tundra pickup truck crashed into a tree near Bellingham three years ago may finally get the answers they’ve been seeking since their son’s death.
Sen. Maria Cantwell announced Tuesday she has secured a commitment from Toyota executives to turn over ‘black box’ data that could provide answers to the cause of Chris Eves’ crash, which was originally attributed to driver error.
Toyota has resisted family requests for the data, but with recent revelations about problems with some Toyota vehicles experiencing unintended acceleration, the company has now agreed to release the information.
Eves, 29, was driving a three-month-old Tundra on Oct. 26, 2007 when the vehicle veered and crashed head-on into a tree on a rural road north of Bellingham.
The truck never swerved. There are no skid marks and no clear evidence as to why he hit the tree. There’s only a final ominous note in the police file: “It remains unknown why the collision occurred.”
As the Eves kept pushing for answers, the Washington State Patrol said fatigue and Chris’ blood alcohol level, which was at the legal limit of .08, were contributing factors to him falling asleep at the wheel.
But as part of our Problem Solver Investigation, KOMO News obtained crash photos showing extensive front-end damage. And nearly every accident report we examined indicates this crash was at a very high rate of speed.
And that left Chris Eves’ parents wondering: How does any of that data add up to falling asleep at the wheel?
“I don’t think Chris would have hit that stump so hard if he had been asleep,” Lori Eves said during our original investigation. “I think his foot would have went off the pedal.”
Two years later, the data kept in the vehicle’s event data recorder (EDR) is the only way to know how fast Chris Eves was going. According to Toyota’s Web site, the EDR could have recorded speed, pressure on the gas pedal and if he’d tried to brake.
“I know that the speed of my son’s vehicle is on there,” said Chris Eves’ father, Ron Eves said in February.
But car owners need a Toyota tool and software to download the information from the EDR. And for more than two years, Toyota, citing corporate policy, had refused to help.
Subsequently, the Eves learned that their son’s 2007 Toyota Tundra was among the millions of vehicles on Toyota’s October 2009 and January 2010 recall lists for problems with the driver-side floor mat and accelerator pedal, either of which could cause unwanted acceleration.
And on Tuesday, under pressure from the U.S. government and a specific request by Sen. Cantwell for Eves’ data, Toyota relented.
“We will be glad to do so,” said Yoshimi Inaba, President and Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Motor North America, Inc. “This is our desire also to find out what has happened. And very, very sorry about what has happened to this family.”
In addition to Eves’ case, Inaba said the automaker will start making available to U.S. safety regulators all EDRs on Toyotas involved in sudden acceleration episodes.
The company will be delivering three data readers to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday and hoped to make the data more accessible to other systems by the middle of 2011.
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Traffic stop outside Ashland results in large cocaine bust
An early morning traffic stop on Friday led Oregon State Police troopers to 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in a vehicle.
At 4:40 a.m. Friday, a trooper stopped a 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe displaying Washington license plates for speeding on Interstate 5 near Milepost 13, just south of Ashland.
During the stop, troopers and a drug-sniffing dog searched the car and found 6 kilograms of cocaine (approximately 13.2 pounds) wrapped in 1-kilo bundles hidden in the car.
The estimated wholesale value of the cocaine is about $150,000, but it would be much higher after the drug was cut with other substances and repackaged on the street, OSP Lt. Kelly Collins said.
“This cocaine could sell for close to half a million dollars after it reaches the street dealers,” Collins said.
Arrested were A male, 24, of Renton, Wash., and A Male, 28, of Seattle, on charges of delivery of cocaine and possession of cocaine.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have placed a federal hold on the suspects on the suspicion they are in the country illegally. They were lodged in the Jackson County Jail without bail.
“This was a large drug bust for us,” Collins said. “We’d like to have more of these.”
Collins said that OSP’s recent staff increases have bolstered the agency’s ranks enough to allow troopers to focus on drug interdiction rather than just responding from one traffic accident to another.
“It’s nice to have the back-up you need to make these large drug stops,” Collins said. “Before, we rarely had time to really look for drugs on the interstate.”
Collins, a 25-year veteran with OSP, said the agency has seized more hard drugs such as cocaine over the past two years simply because there are now more troopers on the road.
“I don’t think there’s necessarily more drugs on the interstate, it’s just that we now have the manpower to do something about it,” Collins said. “There’s always been a lot of drugs coming up and down Interstate 5.”
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Afton woman charged with criminal vehicular homicide
A 19-year-old Afton woman was charged today with criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the death of a Stillwater woman in a car crash last week.
Alicia Rae Haupert appeared in court this morning and bail was set at $40,000, according to the Washington County Attorney’s office. She is being held at the Washington County Jail.
Killed in the crash was Andrea Barbara Zimmerman, 20, who was a passenger in a car driven by Haupert.
Police say Haupert was driving a 2006 Pontiac G6 south on Minnesota 95 in May Township about 8:30 a.m. Friday when she lost control of the car and slid sideways off the road. The car rolled over and struck an electric pole near 144th Street.
The other passenger in the vehicle was the owner of the car — Trisha L. Hughes, 20, of Lake Elmo. Hughes, who was sitting in the front seat, and Haupert had minor injuries.
All three had been drinking and were not wearing seat belts, according to the State Patrol.
Haupert told police she was going 55 mph when she hit some black ice, according to the criminal complaint filed in Washington County District Court. When she tried to correct the car’s movement, the car “fish-tailed” and spun out of control, the complaint states. There were no other vehicles in the area.
Haupert told police she had been drinking vodka mixed with Full Throttle — an energy drink — the night before the accident. She said she stopped drinking about midnight and “went to another house and fell asleep around 4 a.m.,” according to the complaint. Haupert said she and her friends left about 8 a.m. so she could go to work.
According to the criminal complaint, Hughes said she had seven or eight shots of vodka the previous evening and that Haupert “drank more than she did.”
Haupert told police she “did not remember how much she had to drink the night before … and did not feel that what she had to drink affected her ability to drive.” A preliminary breath test at the scene of the accident indicated that she had an alcohol concentration of 0.108; the legal limit is 0.08.
The funeral service for Zimmerman, who was a 2008 graduate of Stillwater Area High School, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Stillwater. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 tonight at Simonet Funeral Home, 6429 Osgood Ave. N., and one hour before the service at the church.
Washington County Attorney Doug Johnson said his office is also reviewing police reports indicating who furnished the liquor to the women, who were all underage. He said criminal charges against the individual who furnished the liquor may be forthcoming.
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