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Monday, March 31, 2008 - Seattle Car Accident News

SEATTLE - Speeding SUV driver kills 92-year-old South Seattle man

Ninty-two-year-old, Salvatore Vito Covello, was killed in South Seattle on Monday afternoon a another driver lost control of his SUV and crashed into his car and then tried to flee the scene.

The car crash happened around 4:30 p.m. near Rainier Avenue South and South Holly Street.

Apparnetly Covello was driving on South Holly Street when a black SUV "traveling at a high rate of speed and possibly fishtailing" crashed into his 1996 Buick.

Covello was killed instantly.  The driver of the SUV ran north on Rainier Avenue South where officers later found and arrested him.

VANCOUVER - Boy Survives Freak Accident

Ralden Redinger, a 12-year-old boy, survived a car accident on Monday in which a tire got loose on Interstate 205 and smashed into the windshield of the car he was riding in.

The accident happened along Highway 205 at Padden Parkway.  The tire bounced through the median and smashed into the windshield where Ralden was sitting.

He suffered a broken nose, a black eye and a concussion.

Kristy Hoggatt was driving the 1995 Volkswagen Jetta which lost a tire.  She was ticketed for having defective equipment on her vehicle and for having no automobile insurance.