26-year-old man critically injured after car strikes him while fleeing accident on foot on I-5 near SeaTac, WA
Driver runs from crash on I-5 near SeaTac, gets hit by car
The southbound lanes were blocked for two hours after the crash as troopers investigated and cleared the scene.
Driver flees I-5 crash near SeaTac, is hit by car
The Washington State Patrol says a motorist who fled on foot after a collision on Interstate 5 was struck in the roadway by a car.
It was just before 12:00 a.m. when a 26-year-old man was driving at an excessive speed southbound on I-5, and collided with another vehicle. No one was injured in that accident, but then the man got out of his vehicle and attempted to run across the northbound lanes of the freeway. He was struck by a northbound vehicle, which rolled over, and was taken to the hospital with critical injuries. Those in the vehicle that struck the man were also uninjured.
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