[UPDATE 3:13 p.m.] Collision on West Wabash Sends One Woman to Hospital
Emergency vehicles block West Wabash Avenue near Union Street as responders manage the scene of a two-vehicle collision Monday afternoon. [Photos by Ryan Hutson]
Emergency responders were called to a two-vehicle collision about 2:45 p.m. Monday on the 2300 block of West Wabash Avenue in Eureka.
According to scanner traffic, one vehicle was struck on the rear passenger side. A woman from the vehicle that was hit was transported by ambulance to the hospital.
Humboldt Bay Fire personnel stand near one of the vehicles involved in the crash on West Wabash Avenue.
Our reporter on scene said the eastbound lane of West Wabash headed away from Broadway was blocked between Union Street and Albee while police and firefighters responded.
City Ambulance, Eureka Police, and Humboldt Bay Fire all responded to the incident.
Emergency personnel on scene as a woman is transported to the hospital following the collision.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 3:13 p.m.: According to Ryan Hutson, our reporter on the scene, Emergency personnel are finishing up and are about to pull away, then traffic will return to normal.
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I avoid Wabash after experiencing a near-deadly t-bone near this intersection. It wasn’t my time.
I had an accident there when an inattentive driver flew through the intersection, ignoring their red light. The force of the impact could have killed my loved one in the passenger seat. Luckily, that driver’s car hit my car far enough behind the passenger seat to spin my car around but not injure us. Ever since then, when I must use that intersection (which is often), I never enter the intersection on the basis of trusting other drivers to follow the rules of the road, to be alert (or even awake); instead, I verify with my own eyes that opposing traffic has come to a complete standstill.
Wabash can be a an extremely dangerous street if folks don’t go the speed limit (or lower) and pay attention at all the intersections. I hope the woman taken to the hospital will be fine.
A valuable publication would be “the safest streets for automobiles in Eureka,” or whatever city.
There is no 2300 block of West Wabash.
The photo appears to be the 300 block.
There was an article yesterday about a fire on W Buhne St where a 2 also got inserted in front of the actual block number.
Fixed
I believe that should be between Union Street and Albee; last I heard, we don’t have an Aldi store in Eureka …
Right? It got my hopes up for a split second!
Fixed. Thank you
Lol. There is no 2300 block of west wabash….
Did one of the drivers attempt to make a u-turn mid-block?
Not all at. We were going forward, got hit by Truck, and spun out into the Jeep. I was the woman taken buy ambulance to the hospital.
I’m glad you’re okay!
Thank you so much🙏
FACTS!- I am the woman in the article. That was taken to the hospital.
It was 3-4 cars, not 2. The driver that hit us, kept driving down Union. He was caught up to, by driver of car that I was passenger in) that he hit, and brought back to the scene.
He was in a truck. It was down on Union during photos.3rd vehicle that was hit was a blue jeep.