One extricated but no serious injuries in Wednesday crash on 202

Published 4:02 pm Thursday, December 3, 2015

Fall City and Carnation Fire Departments responded to a two-car collision on S.R. 202 at Tolt Hill Road just after noon Wednesday, Dec. 2. Four people were involved in the accident and none had serious injuries, but one of them had to be extricated from her vehicle, according to the report from the Fall City Fire Department.

The intersection is at the dividing line between Fall City Fire and Carnation’s Fire Department, so Fall City isn’t always dispatched to that area, said Lt. Jake Dillon of the Fall City department, but he added, “we’ve been there quite a bit lately.”

He couldn’t comment on the cause of the collision.

Washington State Patrol officials did not issue a statement on the accident, since none of the occupants were seriously injured.

Since 2010, the stretch of S.R. 202 between Tolt Hill Road and Duthie Hill Road has been the scene of about 10 collisions each year, according to data requested from the Washington State Patrol: 12 in 2010; 3 in 2011; 9 in 2012; 10 in 2013; 9 in 2014; and as of Nov. 5, 7 this year. Five accidents were attributed to one of the drivers being intoxicated, eight were attributed to one of the vehicles traveling too fast and another eight to a vehicle following too closely. Seven were caused by a driver failing to yield the right-of-way to the other vehicle.