Two Vehicle Accident On Myrtle Ave; Driver Flees Scene

All photos by Nazy Javid of North Coast News.

Around 12:50 a.m., a Blue Dodge 1500 hit a silver SAAB reportly at high speed in the 2800 block of Myrtle Avenue in Eureka.

The driver of the Dodge 1500 fled the scene while the passenger of the same vehicle helped the occupants of the SAAB.

Two people in the SAAB were taken to hospital with unknown injuries.

According to CHP incident website the Dodge 1500 was missing the front suspension after the collision.

Myrtle Avenue was closed till 2:45 am between Mitchel Road to Hall Ave as the CHP and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigated and Humboldt Bay Fire cleared the roadway.

The SAAB involved in the accident.

CHP officer setting up flares at the scene

CHP officers at scene.

 

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CAROL -
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CAROL -
4 years ago

what a creep to leave the scene, hope you get popped and soon

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago
Reply to  CAROL -

🕯🌳I agree, what a coward.

Craig
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Craig
4 years ago

Pretty close to the location of the roadside memorial to the young woman that was killed in a high speed head on collision by a reckless driver.

Indignant 1
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4 years ago

One way we can influence our community for the better.
Raise the cost of rental properties to be in keeping with Carmel, Monterey, and Santa Barbara.
I invite the rest of the property owners to do the same.
State government is angling to fill our properties with section 8 voucher holders. They would turn our home into a low income haven.
We pay more in taxes, we expect more.
Our county should not be turned into low income housing.

Nebula
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Nebula
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

What in the world does this have to do with this wreck?!

BT
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BT
4 years ago
Reply to  Nebula

Right? Like negligent driving has anything to do with wealth?

Willie Caos-mayham
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4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

🕯🌳What the hell does that have to with this accident?

Bozo
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Bozo
4 years ago

(Likely) person that fled is either a tweaker… or an ICE candidate… or a drunk.

Lone ranger
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Lone ranger
4 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Probably a white guy

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
4 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

Since there are no pictures of the truck, is it safe to assume the driver fled in it? If so, how did they do that with a missing suspension?

Great food
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Great food
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

Carmel Monterey and Santa Barbara are full of assholes and homeless

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
4 years ago
Reply to  Great food

He’s imagining a utopian Humboldt in which poor people disappear and are replaced by high level job holding big spenders. I suggest that instead of hoping for his impossible dream that he move to the utopian city of his choice.

memy selfandi
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memy selfandi
4 years ago
Reply to  Great food

And not all one in the same by any stretch

Omgreallydude
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Omgreallydude
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

How about a pay raise

Allie Cat
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Allie Cat
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

Talk about using a news article to further someone’s special interest. [edit]

Downriverlady
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Downriverlady
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

Greedy much??

lets make racism wrong again!
Guest
lets make racism wrong again!
4 years ago
Reply to  Indignant 1

Good luck with that foolish plan. Look around Toto, you aint in Carmel, Monterey, or Santa Barbara. Your home, and my land, have turned into low income havens and the worse is yet to come. The future does not belong to angry white racists.

Just askin'
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Just askin'
4 years ago

But what angry epithets will you then hurl once you have called ” white racist” so many times that it no longer is taken seriously?

Christopher
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Christopher
4 years ago

It’s a Saab story…

Great food
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Great food
4 years ago
Reply to  Christopher

👎🏻

Mr. Bear
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Mr. Bear
4 years ago
Reply to  Christopher

Yeah, should have Dodged

Bozo
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Bozo
4 years ago
Reply to  Mr. Bear

O.M.F.G.

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago

Nasty accident caused by a total jackass. Hope the folks in the Saab that were taken to the hospital will be fine. When I first saw the Saab I thought the driver might have been killed. Keep an eye out people for that Dodge truck, and the coward that was driving it. I hope the police will slap his ass down hard!!!

ernestine
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ernestine
4 years ago
Reply to  Martin

I’m pretty sure the driver’s identity is known to the police since the passenger stayed to help.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  ernestine

Indeed. What an awkward position to be in too, knowing the person (and probably the state of inebriation they were in) and being left to have to explain to the police.

Martin
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Martin
4 years ago
Reply to  ernestine

Yes, if the passenger told them. Riding with a jackass makes me wonder about her also.

Anotherop
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Anotherop
4 years ago
Reply to  Martin

Thank goodness SAABs are very safe and well-engineered. Hope they catch the slimy drunk who tried to kill them.

Your Neighbor
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Your Neighbor
4 years ago

I’m happy that the safety corridor will finally get safer. I fear the amount of accidents we will see on Bayside/Myrtle Ave. when drivers decide to, “go the back way.” I live off a side road and have for over 25 years. People drive crazy, drunk/high and with road rage. I’ve seen more accidents in the last year then I can remember. People slow down! That minute or two you’re trying to save could kill someone.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Your Neighbor

I hope that it will be safer, not just an excuse to drive more recklessly. Cutting across the highway at Indianola is a real challenge with the increasing traffic. Which is why driving 50 on that stretch of highway is not just an irritating abitrary limit as a few apparently think it is.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
4 years ago
Reply to  Guest

The only challenge is not getting rear-ended while waiting for some asshole who is holding up an entire line of cars by refusing to cross without a ten mile opening.

CnD
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CnD
4 years ago

Drunks and punks drive Old Arcata Road/Myrtle Avenue to avoid law enforcement on the Safety Corridor.

Really?
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Really?
4 years ago
Reply to  CnD

Hmm… I drive Old Arcata Road/Myrtle Avenue to avoid the drunks and punks.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
4 years ago
Reply to  Really?

Unfortunately, the only place to avoid the drunks and punks is to stay home in bed… oh, wait…

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
4 years ago
Reply to  CnD

Exactly. I saw a couple of gnarly wrecks on OA road from exactly that scenario.

smitty
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smitty
4 years ago

Where was Ryder Stapp ? Sounds like his M.O. hit someone and run and left othera deal with his mess.

memy selfandi
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memy selfandi
4 years ago

So hope the Saab folks recover though know they’ll likely always affected from something so intensely terrifying. Glad the passenger stayed to help.

Downriverlady
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Downriverlady
4 years ago

Greedy much??

s
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s
4 years ago

What is it about buying a truck and driving with a better than everyone else attitude?

Really?
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Really?
4 years ago
Reply to  s

Trucks are inherently better. When they are bigger, they are safer for their occupants. Having the ability to carry a lot of things, they are great for working people. They can get over/through things that asphalt scrapers only dream about. And, if you can’t carry everything you think you need, you can pull a trailer with even more stuff.

The incorrect attitude belongs to the little guys who scamper around with no serious point to them. And apparently resent it.

Anotherop
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Anotherop
4 years ago
Reply to  Really?

Do you read what you write?

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  Really?

~i miss my truck. It was like my right arm.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago

Some drive horribly on the old Arcata road, especially now that the Leo’s have been doing such a good job keeping the safety corridor safe, their service is much appreciated.

I avoid the old Arcata road, too many crazy, drunk, high, divers, speeding for absolutely no reason.

Feel sorry for the residents around there. Maybe some more round abouts, or bollards or something would help.

There was a dangerous area around Harris, they added some bollards to it, made it safer.

Hope the victim is ok.
Peace.

J
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J
4 years ago

My money’s on the driver being another locally raised white male. Raised in a bubble and taught that they are far more special than they are.

Anti troll league
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Anti troll league
4 years ago
Reply to  J

Yeah, jackasses are all locally raised white men. No one else ever has driven drunk and injured anyone. Wah wah wah…

Kym Kemp
Admin
4 years ago
Reply to  J

ATL is right. Why spread harmful stereotypes?

J
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J
4 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Because some stereotypes are statistically correct and deserve to be discussed, ignoring issues doesn’t make them go away.

There’s lots of people who love sweeping stuff under the rug and getting upset when someone speaks the truth, but I’m going to keep on bringing up the topics that people don’t want to discuss until people do something about it.

if you want to pretend that there is not really a high rate of locally born, primarily white males who do supremely reckless stuff on a regular basis and it has led to higher rate of fatalities among young people in Humboldt then continue living with your very limited world view in your Humboldt bubble.

Kym Kemp
Admin
4 years ago
Reply to  J

Taking a limited amount of information and slinging it at a group of people you don’t like is…not kind, not helpful, and rarely accurate.

Why do you need to throw that accusation out there at all? Its just as ugly as if someone said that a woman driver must be responsible or a black man or an illegal alien or…?

At least wait until you have a fact or two to back it up. Possibly wait until you have a whole bunch of facts.

I like to wait until a judge bangs the hammer after a trial but…hey, you don’t have to get all crazy and presume innocence until proven guilty.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Hmm…

Steve Parr
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Steve Parr
4 years ago
Reply to  J

“…a really high rate of locally born, primarily white males…”.

Hmm…and could the, “high rate of…white males,” possibly be connected to the fact that 85% of the county is white?

Are you saying that more minorities need to do, “supremely reckless stuff on a regular basis,” to satisfy your need for diversity in everything?

But if they did, and anyone were to comment on it, as you have, it would be racist!

Oh, what are we to do?

Kathy Huntress
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Kathy Huntress
4 years ago

My partner was the driver of the SAAB. Happily his leg will heal. He broke his leg backwards at the knee, a very painful break, a tibial plateau fracture, and 6 bones in his face. BUT the horror of the impact will last a long time, the concussion affects his emotional reactions, & the scars on his face will always be a reminder.

Unfortunately, you can’t get pain meds here! You just have to tough it out anymore. In the first 30 hours he got one milligram of morphine. & then later 4 mg. And it didn’t get any better. It seems like a car wreck like that should be enough to get some pain relief and not be considered recreational. The opiate pain med laws have to change. Pain patients whose scripts have been cut to below tolerable are turning to street drugs, some OD’ing, and some are committing suicide. This accident really made it clear politicians are playing doctor, and they are not qualified to do so. If this happened to a politician’s kid or doctor’s, I’m sure the law would change overnight. Limiting legitimate pain patient’s medications isn’t the way to fight recreational drug use. It punishes the wrong people. That seems pretty simple to understand.

The truck stopped 70 yards down the road & the driver fled on foot. He was arrested the next day, and was charged with a felony— & bailed out.

We are grateful to the SAAB Company for building a car so amazingly strong that it allowed the passengers to live. Very few cars can-to quote the CHP- “remove the suspension on a Dodge truck.” Thanks, Saab.