UPDATE: Another car-onto-sidewalk crash

5:19 PM: For the second consecutive day, a driver has ended up on a business-district sidewalk in West Seattle. This time, it was the northwest corner of 42nd/Oregon – as shown by the street sign brought down on the car. We don’t know much about the circumstances, only that it was originally dispatched around 3:15 pm as a crash “with two patients,” neither described as seriously hurt/ill, and only one SFD engine was sent. (Yesterday’s car-on-sidewalk crash was at 16th/Roxbury.)

7:08 PM: Readers have added more info. Meantime, Dan sent this photo from another angle:

7:35 PM: SFD tells us two people were treated at the scene:

-74-year-old woman in stable condition, transported to Swedish First Hill via AMR.
-37-year-old woman in stable condition, did not need transportation to a hospital.

Neighbor October 28, 2025 (5:38 pm)

It was a two car collision, driver of the red car was taken with their arm in a sling via ambulance. Took this pic from the apts on that corner.

Nitro October 28, 2025 (5:54 pm)

Jeez. That’s right across the street from Hope School. That’s a really busy intersection with school dismissal at around that time- lots of kids and families out on the sidewalks. Hope everyone in the car is OK and I’m so thankful that there weren’t kids waiting at that intersection corner.

Almost hit October 28, 2025 (6:06 pm)

I was the car immediately behind the red car. The black car ran a red light and T-boned the red car in the middle of the intersection. Both cars spun and the black car ended up on the sidewalk. Thankful there were no major injuries.

Concerned October 28, 2025 (7:00 pm)

It was right after Hope’s school pickup. We were there. Very scary. I am glad there were no serious injuries but shame on the black car. Had it been 10 minutes earlier, kids and parents would most likely have been hit.

bolo October 28, 2025 (9:03 pm)

I am a frequent pedestrian crosser at that 42nd/Oregon intersection. There’s an easy 20% risk of someone blasting west up that hill (westbound Oregon st.) and running their fresh red (just turned red from stale yellow) light there. This afternoon it was a newish white BMW that I saw do it. Easy 20% chance. Glad that nobody was seriously injured this time.