[UPDATE 6:15 p.m.] Crash At E and 6th in Eureka
The black Toyota crumpled into a pole. [All photos by Bobby Kroeker]
The black truck struck the red Nissan which had a woman and an infant in it. Then plowed into the street light pole.
The driver of the red car was able to pull out of the intersection and park.
The Number 2 lane on 6th Street is currently closed.
The red Nissan had an infant in it.
The black Toyota nearly crashed into the KAEF building.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 6:15 p.m.: The driver of the black Toyota is being handcuffed after failing a test for intoxication.
An officer puts the driver of the black Toyota in handcuffs while another officer restrains her.
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Damnit! My wife and I are proud first time parents to an 8 day old boy. This shit is a nightmare I battle a couple nights a week it seems. Usually after we make a town run. Were from Oregon and we cant belive how fucking terrible people drive here. People here are fucking idiots on the road. I hope they hammer the hell out of that stupid bitch!
I pray Mother Earth watched over the mother and baby.
Dude, you seriously need to medicate.
Also, how can we be sure this wasn’t “staged” so that they could be talked about by Dylan and Nazi on the news tonight?
Wtf??? Staged??? And you say Im the one that needs medicated?
Yes, staged. Look where it happened and think of what day it was. It’s called a joke. It was a simple one at that. I have a question for you, Flee. Did you bother to check out the area before you moved to Eureka? If so, why pick the worst city in the area to raise a family?
Even Rio Dell, which used to be the worst, has cleaned up their act and would have been a better choice.
Nope in fact ill give you a quick tldr. Left oregon after va got ahold of me through a homeless veterans group. Used my first disability check to buy a crappy rv. Myself 43 wife 35 headed to boondock live in arizona. Made it here transmission blew out found a place to park wife got a job, year later we find out wife is 3 months pregnant. Mind you weve been married 16 years no protection never gotpregnant. So now were here broke rv but small enough income between the 2 of us to survive but not enough to buy a better rv. So we are basicly stuck here. But we take our situation and do the best we can with it. Would i choose to live or raise a family here?? Fuck no! But thats our current mission and unlike most people we dont half ass or fail our missions
I’m glad you’re here and able to rebound again. Please make our place a better place. We need you, we need all hands on deck. Make the change you want to see, however small it may be. Be the change, be that mission, be that person.
Really, I’m sincere. I do my best. And all the best to you, veteran.
~yes, Welcome to you, Fleetheptsd, wife, and congratulations on your new arrival.
Educate before you vaccinate!!! Stay away from the white coats.
There was no threat to Humboldt County way over in Afghanistan. You chose poorly. Now you want and expect both praise and sympathy for what amounts to a work comp issue. Did I ask you to do that? No, not at all. I can defend myself.
Take a look at how nasty and worked up you are by being all concerned with the thoughts of someone you obviously despise without even knowing. Similar to those innocent folks you were killing over there just because your government told you to.
Remember, this all started with a joke that you didn’t understand, so you got offended.
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On a much happier note, sorry for the misspelling, Nazy. I did not do that intentionally.
Geez, Kym. You couldn’t even leave the part of my comment where I apologized to Nazy for misspelling her name?
You’re too much sometimes.
Once again, Sorry Nazy, the misspelling of your name was not intentional.
Yes, this is drama class for this serial commenter. The world is a stage. Kym needs a virtual fainting couch.
[Edit] that was my stepdaughter and grandbaby with my woman.we wouldn’t risk our lives to help a news story [Edit]
Take care of that baby. Practice defensive driving and you should be OK.
Or Fleetheptsd you could just go back to the largest county in Californicate, that would be OR. by the way
Industrial disease I was in front of that nissan and that lady in the Toyota blew through the red light. She almost T-boned my truck but swerved at the last second and slammed into the nissan behind me. It happened in a split second and the nissan had literally no time to react. Defensive driving wouldn’t have changed a thing.
Completely agree. I flat-out refuse to drive here because of the consistently reckless and really frightening nature of the driving that I’ve observed whilst residing here. We too, have a young daughter, and a routine automobile ride across this City shouldn’t have to be something to be so concerned with. People also have a tendency to continually underestimate the mechanical forces involved in road traffic collisions that can so easily result in life-changing injuries, trauma, or death. Safety belts and child carseats aren’t just optional accessories. Many drivers also think it won’t or can’t happen to them-until it does. Drive to stay alive!.
Well if you drive stupid and think everyone should get out of your way you can get across town 20 seconds earlier. Destination and back that is 40 seconds, almost a whole minute. Compare that with causing an accident, they don’t seem to care. Those stupid drivers are the same ones who will blame someone else for the accident they cause. I was driving a body shop worker somewhere once, he said “I used to get angry at the way people here drive. Now I just consider it job security.”.
So True! Used to be an EMT.
SPEEDERS are the ones who cause deaths, not people driving ‘too slow for me’. If everyone seems to be driving too slow to you, maybe YOU are the problem?
Driving too slow and too fast are equally the problem. But one of the bigger problems is they designed the streets with illogical speed limits that disrupt flow and cause traffic jams which ultimately caused more traffic accidents. There are also more roads that I can count where you have to blindly turn into traffic because of the illogical street parking that they allow and people parking illegally too close to the intersection blocking the view of the road when entering from the intersection. The city needs a cracked down on a lot of things and re-design the street flow and speed limits. And of course I concur, I drive for my job and see the stupidest driving every single day that makes me question if either everyone was just released from the hospital for a coma or if it’s everybody’s first day driving.
Please read my second line again. Its NOT slow drivers! Annoying, but not deadly. Its not the f-ing roads! How do thousands navigate them fine every day if they are so deadly?
Its a-holes who SPEED and drink and text. THEY cause death and injury.
WAIT, WHAT?!? Your from Oregon and you “can’t believe how terrible people drive here”? Ohh, I see, April Fools…… got me.
Heres a tip lane #1 or “the fast lane” is for passing and not driving at whatever speed you feel like, while having 5 cars on your ass and a clear lane beside and in front of you. Please drive in lane #2 unless you are passing and then get back over. SIMPLE!
This is the problem with a number of Eureka drivers, in thinking that there are “fast lanes” inside the Eureka City limits, there are no “Slower traffic must keep right” signs posted. Ask any EPD officer, and they will tell you that a driver can travel in any lane on a public street (going the proper way, of course,) and at the speed limit or less.
It completely amazed me to get tailgated, and a “flash to pass” (a few weeks back) while driving in the center lane on H street in Eureka.
You’re right craig, there aren’t fast lanes in town that only applies on the freeway. However, it is annoying to ride behind three cars side by side on H street and everyone’s not even doing the speed limit.
If the three cars, going slow on H st, are near the EHS campus during school hours, I can understand. I had one EHS student power walk out in front of me on H st. and gave me the most condescending look possible after my making a panic stop.
Luckily, I was traveling well below the speed limit at the time to avoid hitting her.
The young woman is hopefully now in her 50’s and has taught her children the danger of power walking to traffic.
Yes, correct, my bad. I did not mean in the city, only on the interstate and highways.
Due to my disabilities incured while over in Afganistan, i can no longer drive. However my wife, has been driving since the age of 8 in coffee fields in Hawaii, she is probably the best driver ive ever met. Trust me buddy your safer in our car then youd be anywhere in your current life.
Doody!
The roads here throng with suicidal, clueless drivers. Gets worse all the time.
I too go to great lengths to avoid driving in Eureka anywhere on Broadway or between 7th and the Bay. Unfortunately it’s impossible to avoid it altogether. This sort of avoidance is not good for the merchants of Eureka and I’m surprised I don’t hear more from them in the news in making demands on the city government to make driving less stressful.
Who was the driver that was arrested?
Summer Kenyon
I see no arrests on Loco that match her description.
SUMMER REGINA KENYON
Wait??? Isnt that the druggie thats been on here multiple times busted for druggie stuff??
When people from out of the area ask me “How’s Eureka?” I always tell them that it’s the city where stop signs, red lights, and turn signals are optional…
its always sad when you read comments from people who know so little about the subject at hand.some dummy lent his or her truck to a drunken druggie and got their truck broken and a large law suit.when we asked the officer for the names and addy’s for ins purposes he said don’t wrry you can get them anytime and its a done deal- dui at fault.and eureka is not a city by itself with bad driving,all cities have the same problems.driving defensively and in a vehicle with good crash ratings is your only way to survive bad decisions
All of you should try driving in Sacramento or the Bay area. Then if you came out alive you would kiss the ground.
Kym, I’ve noticed that Willie hasn’t replied to anything and he is usually the first one. Do you know if he is okay?
The last time Willie posted was right before 7 p.m. last night. I hope he just slept in.
Rise and shine, Willie! We need your comments to make the news fun!
Gypsy Rose, I agree wholeheartedly. I kiss the ground… literally, the sidewalk out my front door, when I get home.
From my opinion, for what it’s worth, 1/4th the people driving in this county are driving on suspended licenses and/or under the influence. Pot takes a long time to clear the system and driving with it in your system is driving under the influence.
Nice deleating my well worded reply to Hoj attacking me Kym….
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Of particular note for both you and HOJ is “Insulting other commenters will get you deleted. Do it too often and you will get banned.”
Also, Flee, HOJ in Training appears to enjoy riling people up. If possible ignore him or if not possible, write my name in a reply to his comment. That way I know to look at it harder. Sometimes I’m busy and skimming and miss rule breaking.
fair enough thank you