Single-car crash in Bellingham’s Columbia neighborhood injures woman, knocks out power
The Bellingham Police Department continues to investigate a single-car crash Sunday morning in the Columbia neighborhood that resulted in a power outage in the area and a woman being transported to the hospital with serious injuries.
Officers were called at 7 a.m. Aug. 2 to the 1600 block of Eldridge Avenue for a single-car collision, according to the department’s incident log.
Witnesses reported seeing the car traveling toward town at a “high rate of speed,” Lt. Claudia Murphy told The Bellingham Herald in an email.
The 25-year-old driver, whose identity was not released, swerved into the opposite lane of travel, then back across the center line and onto the sidewalk, Murphy reported. The car then crossed over the sidewalk and collided with a power pole, shearing it off.
The car continued into a tree and then tumbled and rolled across two yards and came to rest on its roof behind a hedge in the 1500 block of Eldridge, according to Murphy.
The driver was ejected from the car and taken to the emergency department at St. Joseph hospital with injuries Murphy called serious.
Eldridge was closed between Broadway and Utter Street while emergency crews worked the scene of the crash, according to a Bellingham Police tweet at the time.
