Well known people get killed there...
Anyway, here's the latest, straight from the Port Angeles Police Department's own Facebook page. For some reason, the PDN was reluctant to include many of the details that the PAPD put right out there.
Power poles are often targets...
On September 8, 2017 at approximately 1:27 AM Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Cortani advised PenCom (dispatch) that he was attempting to stop a westbound vehicle on Hwy 101 east of Port Angeles. The vehicle was described as driving “erratically” and pulling away from the deputy while traveling at a high rate of speed. He was able to determine that it was a silver SUV. The vehicle continued onto East Front Street and toward the Downtown area at a high rate of speed. While pursuing the SUV officers maintained a safe distance of several blocks behind the vehicle.
Kids are at risk...
In the area of 300 West Front Street officers found a heavily damaged guard rail and a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee four door SUV upside down and in shallow water. They also found three persons still inside the vehicle. Officers requested additional law enforcement and emergency services resources, and then approached the vehicle. It was determined that the individuals were unable to self-extricate. Corporal Sky Sexton located a male on the driver’s side of the vehicle who was yelling for help and whose torso was partially outside of the vehicle and in the water. Officers later reported that the driver was in a life threatening situation and was in danger of drowning. Corporal Sexton entered the vehicle via a broken passenger window and crawled to the driver. With the assistance of Officer Jared Tait he then cut off the driver’s seatbelt.
It's dangerous from one end of town...
The two officers extricated the driver, moved him through the water and onto the shoreline. Officer Tait remained with that patient while Officer Sexton returned to the car and stood by with the two patients still in the vehicle. Officer Harry Balderson located a fourth subject on an embankment who reported having been ejected from the vehicle. Port Angeles Fire Department personnel arrived on scene, took over patient care of the driver and ejected passenger, and subsequently extricated and treated the remaining two passengers in the vehicle. Fire Department personnel reported three of the patients to be in critical or serious condition and Clallam 2 Fire/Rescue and Olympic Ambulance personnel were called to assist. 
...to the other.
All four patients were transported to the Olympic Medical Center. The driver of the vehicle was later air lifted to Harbor View Medical Center. Another passenger (identified as 18 year old Elijah F. Jackson) was treated and released from the hospital. He was booked into the Clallam County Jail on outstanding probable cause on an unrelated criminal case. Christina L. Green (28 years old) was later released from the Olympic Medical Center and Mitchel S. Ward (18 years old) was reportedly air lifted to Harbor View Medical Center. The driver was subsequently identified as a Grant Eastman (21 years old).
Volume, volume, volume! This was the second
multi-car crash within hours...
Nice. Really nice. I tell you, that guard rail just seems to have a target painted on it, it gets smashed into so often. The Wild West - or at least the Drunken Dangerous West - is alive and well in Port Angeles. (Until it's airlifted to Harbor View, anyway...)
Even the Sheriff's Department likes the demolition derby...
That name Ward jumped right out at me. Seems like we all know a local "activist" named Ward...Hmmm...Anyone know if there's any relation? 
Meanwhile, the numbers don't lie...2nd and Vine...
5th and Cherry...
10th and Peabody...Yes, Port Angeles is unsafe
at any speed, any time, any place.
Clallam County does not top the car crash list.
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I never said, or even implied, that Clallam County tops any list. (Its more natural home is nearer the bottom of things, after all.)
DeleteBut, I do think there are a disproportionate number of crashes in and just outside of Port Angeles. I mean, there's ALWAYS someone in the news with some horrific crash around there - especially as compared to, say, Sequim. (And Sequim has a much busier downtown and main corridor.) That's why it was so frighteningly easy to find all these photos. There have been a LOT of crashes, a lot of fatalities, and a lot of power poles/lines taken out.
Along those lines, and per the chart you provided a link to (thanks for that), Clallam County has 132.5 "collisions" per every 100 million vehicle miles traveled. Neighboring Jefferson County? They only have 92.9 "collisions" per every 100 million vehicle miles traveled. So, what makes Clallam County "stand out" so over their closest neighbors?
Hmmm...
Also, documenting "collisions" doesn't actually address the SEVERITY of those collisions. I think most people would agree that 100 fender benders aren't as bad or costly as just a handful of fatality accidents. I'd be interested to know how Clallam County stacks up when it comes to injury/fatality accidents, versus just simple collisions.
Then, there's also the issue of how seriously the various counties take these "collisions." There have been numerous cases - including multiple fatality accidents - in Clallam County that in one form or another got swept under the rug.
Ask and ye shall receive! From the Washington State Crash Data Portal (here: https://remoteapps.wsdot.wa.gov/highwaysafety/collision/data/portal/public/#!), I ran a report for 2016 for both Clallam and Jefferson counties... Clallam County had 7 fatal crashes in 2016, whereas Jefferson had 2. Jefferson had 421 total crashes versus 841 for Clallam. One thing to note though, the report is for fatal crashes... not crash fatalities. So crashes that killed more than one person would still just be one fatal crash.
DeleteSo, that data makes it *seem* like Clallam is way worse. But you need to bear in mind, Clallam county has somewhat more than twice the population of Jefferson. So, the rates are probably about the same.
But anyhow, the real reason I came here is for dirt on Amber Steim.... She still in prison? I think her sentence was due to be up in 2018, but figured she'd be out on parole by now... But, google turns up nothing about it.... Any news for us Kicker?
Rednecks, racists and street racers. All the things you can find in abundance in Port Angeles. Which is why prosperity remains so rare here.
ReplyDeleteSo, why were a 28 year old and a 21 year old hanging out with two 18 year olds?
DeleteTypical Clallam County Capers.
The people in charge here, the elected leaders and hidden powerbrokers, don't care about anybody. They set the tone and play the tune. It only makes sense that those lower down the food chain would follow their lead.
ReplyDeleteThere's no honor in a criminal enterprise. But there's plenty of self-destructive behavior and backstabbing.
And that's how Port Angeles became and remains a "distressed community".
And another old time family name in the news, in a manner that supports the unstable view of Port Angeles:
ReplyDelete"A Port Angeles woman was booked into the Clallam County jail for investigation of second-degree assault-domestic violence after police said she confronted a fellow resident with a firearm during an argument.
Betty Jean Blevins, 44, remained in jail on $25,000 bail Saturday."
And even more adventures into the land of Elders Acting Out in Port Angeles (hosted by Cherie Kidd):
Delete"Suspect back in custody after multiple thefts:
On 09/08/17 at approximately 10:08 am, PENCOM received a report of a theft at a downtown business in the 100 block of W First Street. A male suspect had reportedly stolen an employee’s set of keys. Officer Luke Brown reviewed the surveillance footage and immediately recognized the suspect as Charles A Johnson (65 years-old, of Port Angeles.) Johnson was not located in the area at that time.
At approximately 2:30 pm, PENCOM received a call from the same business, reporting that Johnson had returned to the store and stolen a t-shirt. Staff advised that they observed Johnson wearing the stolen shirt and confronted him. Johnson returned the shirt, but was wearing a second stolen shirt underneath. When asked for the keys that were stolen earlier in the day, Johnson fled.
Ofc. JJ Smith responded and located Johnson hiding in a back yard in the area.
After his recent arrest for Malicious Mischief involving area ATM machines, Johnson had been released from the Clallam County Jail on September 7th at about 5 pm and was back in custody on September 8th at about 2:45 pm."
Keep grandpa's bed in the jail cell warm for him...He's coming right back.
Because it's another GREAT day in (Cursed) Port Angeles.
Because...of course.
DeleteWow! Johnson sure has an agenda!
DeletePoor old guy. Hopefully medication will be in his future.
DeleteSure, most any town has accidents and crime. Lots of towns have corrupted local politics and people focused on what they can get out of "the system".
ReplyDeletePort Angeles has something special about it. Back in 2003 when Chi-Whit-Zen was being desecrated, people talked of the curse that was put on the Europeans that killed off the first peoples.
I don't believe in such things, and think most of the "spiritual" stuff generated is created by humans to make themselves feel better about what they do.
But Port Angeles is cursed. Cursed by the mindset we document on these pages every day. As CK notes, we see one example with the "old family name" pulling a weapon on another, obviously thinking that is an appropriate way to deal with another person.
Are these people the victims and results of generations of "settlers" who pickled their brains with whiskey. and created generations of offspring with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
"FAS/FASD through the Lifespan
FAS/FASD has lifelong implications. There is a broad range of characteristics to watch for at different ages.
Infants: low birth weight; irritability; sensitivity to light, noises and touch; poor sucking; slow development; poor sleep-wake cycles; increased ear infections.
Toddlers: poor memory capability, hyperactivity, lack of fear, no sense of boundaries and a need for excessive physical contact.
Grade-school years: short attention span, poor coordination and difficulty with both fine and gross motor skills.
Older children: trouble keeping up with school, low self-esteem from recognizing that they are different from their peers.
Teenagers: poor impulse control, cannot distinguish between public and private behaviors, must be reminded of concepts on a daily basis.
Adults: need to deal with many daily obstacles, such as affordable and appropriate housing, transportation, employment and money handling."
Sounds like Port Angeles to me!
People with FAS generating children with FAS, and on and on.
And, the scamsters easily see how this population can be manipulated to get what they want.
Remember that the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony, formed in the 1800s, was a group of racists who moved here to get away from the presence of the Chinese in the Seattle area. They wanted to establish their all-white utopia here.
The early Europeans pushed the first peoples off their lands, took control of the natural resources, and quickly got into the rape, pillage and plunder cycle we still see today.
The curse.