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One injured in Glenoma crash

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One injured in Glenoma accident
Motor vehicle collision caused by failed U-turn



Date: June 27, 2011, 06/27/2011
Location: Glenoma, Lewis County, Washington
Type: Car accident, Motor vehicle collision
Outcome: One injured

A woman was injured in a collision near Glenoma on Monday afternoon.

While attempting to make a U-turn on U.S. Highway 12, 66-year-old Barbara Munson collided with another vehicle.

Munson was taken to Morton General Hospital with a sore neck. There were no reports of injury for the other driver.

Washington State Patrol is investigating the accident.

Car Accident Statistics
There were an estimated 6,420,000 car accidents in the US in 2005. There were about 2.9 million car accident injury cases and 42,636 car accident deaths. An average of 115 persons die each day in car accidents in the United States -- one every 13 minutes. According to the World Health Organization about 3000 people die in car accidents each day worldwide.

"U" Turns (RCW 46.61.295)
(1) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such movement can be made in safety and without interfering with other traffic.
(2) No vehicle shall be turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any curve, or upon the approach to or near the crest of a grade, where such vehicle cannot be seen by the driver of any other vehicle approaching from either direction within five hundred feet.

Seattle Motor Vehicle Accident Attorneys
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