Edmonds woman, 84, injured in two-car crash at 9th and Main Friday

An 84-year-old Edmonds woman was cited for second-degree negligent driving after she drove her Cadillac through a stop sign at 9th Avenue and Main Street at 11:30 a.m. Friday, striking another vehicle that had the right of way and ending up in a yard at the southwest corner of the intersection.

According to Edmonds police spokesman Sgt. Shane Hawley, the 84-year-old driver was transported to Swedish Edmonds hospital with a leg injury. The driver of the other vehicle, a 59-year-old Edmonds woman, was uninjured in the crash.

The incident occurred when the 59-year-old woman, headed westbound in her Buick on Main Street, proceeded through the four-way intersection after stopping. The other driver, headed southbound on Ninth Avenue, rolled through the stop sign without slowing down, striking the other car and coming to rest in the yard nearby, Hawley said.

Ninth Avenue was closed between Main and Dayton for a short time while the accident scene was cleared.

 

  1. Drivers of all ages commonly do the same, throughout our city, as this 84-year old lady did. It is a miracle that there are not many more accidents occurring.

  2. In the 10 years I’ve lived in Edmonds, I don’t recall there ever being a blinking red light at 9th and Main. Nor at any of the intersections along 9th between Main and 220th. Maybe someone who has lived in Edmonds for more than 10 years remembers if there was one there?

  3. As I recall there was a blinking red light for North & South (9th) because East & West (Main) did not stop at all.
    Also Main and 7th did not have stop signs on the East West portion, only South bound 7th did.

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