Five injured as two cars crash into building

Published 4:50 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Early Sunday morning, the Renton Fire Department responded to a report of a vehicle crashed into a building near the corner of Petrovitsky Road and 173rd Avenue.

According to a post on the Renton Fire and Emergency Services Facebook page, the call came in at 2:36 a.m. Sunday. Upon arrival crews found a serious injury accident involving a vehicle fire, a second vehicle into a building with one critical patient unconscious along with four other patients.

Crews rapidly extricated the critical patient, extinguished the vehicle fire and treated a total of five patients. Four patients were transported to Valley Medical center by a Renton Fire aid unit and Tri-Med and one patient was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

The cause of the accident is under investigation by the KCSO and the condition of the patients is unknown.