Wrong-way Tesla collides with maintenance truck in tunnel, Seattle WA
TrafficAn officer reports a white Tesla drove the wrong way through the State Route 99 tunnel. The car passed workers, nearly hit a patrol vehicle and then struck a highway maintenance attenuator truck head-on. The driver is pinned between the maintenance truck and a patrol car and tried to back into the patrol vehicle. Construction workers and officers are on scene and more units are responding.
Audio|Source: Washington State Patrol D2 Dispatch
04:17
Transcript:
Just had a vehicle go the wrong way. Collision with one of the highway maintenance trucks in the northbound State Route 99 tunnel. Registration (number withheld). (name withheld). Subject cited and released. I have the subject pinned between a maintenance truck and my patrol car. He's been trying to back up to strike my patrol vehicle. I observed a white Tesla slowing on the express lanes just north of the exit. It came the wrong way through the tunnel past workers. I tried to stop him; he came at me and almost hit my patrol vehicle and almost hit workers. Then he went head-on with a maintenance attenuator truck. Construction workers are talking with him and waiting for other units to get here. The Tesla stopped on the left shoulder of the express at the Mercer exit. Registration (number withheld). Locking lane two. Request to hold air until we get this done. (name withheld) is going to be 417.
Just had a vehicle go the wrong way. Collision with one of the highway maintenance trucks in the northbound State Route 99 tunnel. Registration (number withheld). (name withheld). Subject cited and released. I have the subject pinned between a maintenance truck and my patrol car. He's been trying to back up to strike my patrol vehicle. I observed a white Tesla slowing on the express lanes just north of the exit. It came the wrong way through the tunnel past workers. I tried to stop him; he came at me and almost hit my patrol vehicle and almost hit workers. Then he went head-on with a maintenance attenuator truck. Construction workers are talking with him and waiting for other units to get here. The Tesla stopped on the left shoulder of the express at the Mercer exit. Registration (number withheld). Locking lane two. Request to hold air until we get this done. (name withheld) is going to be 417.
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State Rte 99 Tunl, Seattle, WA
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