SEATTLE — A Seattle Fire Department technical rescue team responded after a car slammed into a Georgetown building Monday morning.
The team was at the scene in the 5500 block of East Marginal Way South near Utah Street shortly before noon.
See photos of the crash scene here.
Video from Chopper 7 showed that a badly mangled Jeep appeared to have hit Mallory Safety and Supply and then slammed back down into some landscaping.
Police say is started when the driver of the Jeep rear-ended a city vehicle. Witnesses say the Jeep lost control and catapulted through the company sign, leaving plastic shards all over the ground. The Jeep came to rest in a tree.
Chopper 7 was overhead as firefighters cut the roof off the Jeep to get the driver out.
“I’m amazed they took him out of the car breathing ," Lorene Simmons, who works at Mallory Safety and Supply, told KIRO 7. "He came south this way and flipped and turned, hit the sign, hit a guard rail. I’m amazed.”
Medics transported a 60-year-old man to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries. Firefighters said he was wearing a seatbelt.
The driver of the city vehicle, 65, was taken to a hospital. He complained of neck pain.
“We were thankful it didn’t hit the coffee stand," said Akira Sorsen, who works at an espresso stand just north of the crash . "He was right there and he toppled over, I guess."
Seattle police are investigating whether speed contributed to the crash.
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