UPDATE: Incident on the West Seattle Bridge

10:50 AM: For those who’ve passed this in the last 15 minutes or so and wondered: Police responded to a report of a person walking on the West Seattle Bridge near the Delridge offramp. That happens more often than you might expect. When officers reached the person, the person was reportedly combative, so officers called for backup. The situation is reported to be under control now but is (or was) briefly blocking one or two westbound lanes.

10:55 AM: SFD medics have been called; we don’t know yet whether for the detained person, police, or both.

4:19 PM: SFD tells us the person was a woman around 30 years old and: “She was transported to Harborview for further care. Reported as suspected drug use.”

ttt July 7, 2023 (10:58 am)

I just went over the westbound lane- the person is laying on their belly, hands behnd their back near the median. an ambulance and 3 cop cars all on westbound side taking up one lane.

WS Neighbor July 7, 2023 (11:09 am)

Medics had a young woman who appeared anguished on a stretcher. I assume it’s a mental health crisis.

Kadoo July 7, 2023 (3:29 pm)

Heading north on 99 at around 12:30 pm today I saw a man laying on the median on 99 right after the entrance from the West Seattle bridge. I was driving or would have called 911. By the time I returned at 3:00 he was gone.

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