Angela Marie Willard dies in fatal Seattle car crash
Fatal Seattle car crash death of Angela Marie Willard
According to the King County Medical Examiner, the woman who was hit and killed in the accident has been identified as Angela Marie Willard.
Investigators involved in the case revealed that Willard passed away due to injuries caused by being struck forcefully, specifically affecting her upper body. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning at Boylston Street, located between Pine and Pike avenues in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Details from the official report indicate that Willard was killed when she was hit by a vehicle while she was asleep near the exit ramp of the Pike Motorworks building, which is a large multi-story parking garage.
The initial coverage of this 6:30 a.m. collision and the subsequent police investigation was previously reported by this news source. According to law enforcement, the 49-year-old woman was found lying on the road, asleep, when the driver exited their parking space into Boylston Street. The Seattle Fire Department responded by providing emergency medical treatment and transported her to Harborview Medical Center in a critical condition, but she eventually died at the hospital.
The driver involved in the accident remained at the scene and willingly provided information to the police. A specialist trained to assess intoxication, known as a Drug Recognition Expert, examined the driver and concluded that there was no evidence of impairment.
Willard’s death marks the third pedestrian-related fatality involving a vehicle in the area this month. Earlier in June, this publication reported on two incidents where residents were backed over and killed. One occurred at a smoking shelter behind a senior community facility in First Hill, and the other was not specified but was also within the same timeframe.
It was mentioned that Willard was a resident of Seattle.
Beyond tragic and hard to comprehend given the design of the Motorworks parking garage entry/exit.
Tragic indeed, but what is hard to comprehend? A driver exiting a garage would have no reason to expect a person lying down in the roadway.
Hmmm, based on your statement I definitely wouldn’t want to be around you while you’re driving a car….
Car brained people often don’t understand they are the cause and not effects here.
Not an uncommon site around the hill since Covid. It’s shocking it doesn’t happen more often honestly. Last month a guy had passed out surrounded by his foil and wrapped himself in a blanket right in the alley by the dumpsters on 13th and Denny. I figured no way the garbage truck dude on the way to the dumpsters saw him so I flagged him down and said careful. Dude said he spotted him all way and that it was part of his job. WTF. That’s where we are at with “compassion”.
