[UPDATE 11:05 a.m.] One Person Pinned Under Vehicle in Eureka
One person is pinned under a vehicle near the intersection of Oak and H in Eureka by Grant Elementary School as of 10:35 a.m.
The vehicle struck an elderly pedestrian, according to the first reports from the scene as relayed over the scanner. It may have also sideswiped a mail truck prior to that.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 11:05 a.m.:
According to law enforcement at the scene speaking to our photographer Mark McKenna, an elderly driver may have been involved in a collision with a mail truck. The woman continued on but stopped her vehicle to inspect it soon after. (Both tires were flat.) Then the truck rolled back on the woman pinning her.The personnel at the scene believe there was no drugs or alcohol involved but possibly a medical issue. The woman has been taken to the hospital.
Campton Road is shut down in both directions as of 11 a.m.
Thanks to Eureka Police and Humboldt Bay Fire, as well as the ambulance for responding to the incident.
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Hope everyone is ok.
The school cannot facilitate the incredible amount of traffic that is generated by parents dropping off and picking up their kids. The parents block driveways and alleys in the neighborhood and generally drive like savages.
Oak Street serving as a link between H and F makes it all the worse.
You are so right about that! I dread when schools are open because of the way the crazed parents drive!
First paragraph, 10:35 a.m.
That’s funny, Liz. Was thinking the same thing.
What a horrible accident- trapped under the car. Thanks for the update.
Obviously should not be driving. Too many oldsters with conditions driving. I watched one blow through two stop signs and then park across two parking spaces at the Eureka library.
Too many youngsters stoned, drunk and otherwise incapacitated driving.
Just over hormone ridden.
Too much laws of physics. Nobody would get pinned by vehicles if we had less gravity.
Fukin libs with their positron beams.
Are those the same positron beams making chem trails? LMFAO! 😆🤣 Watch out!
So Hummers are so crazy!🤪
The elderly person WAS A PEDESTRIAN. Reading & comprehension are learnable.
YOU need to read the article again.
The elderly person got out of her truck, the truck pinned her.
she was not a pedestrian, she just so happened to step out of her car to check the damage after she crashed it into a US Mail truck. I hope the postal worker is okay.
There is a hero involved in this story.I do believe she might have saved the womens life.Thank you!
This probably should be the last day the woman is allowed to drive.
Dream on
so old woman drives truck sideswipes mail truck gets out to check her rig for damage and gets pinned by her own rig. and yet because of her age no drugs are likely involved ?or why excatly ? older folks tend to have the rxs around why are they so sure she wasnt on something.