SEATTLE — A 25-year-old man is accused of speeding in Seattle's Pioneer Square and crashing into a taxi cab, injuring several people and killing one woman on May 23, according to new charging documents.
Aboubacarr Singhateh, of Mill Creek, is charged with one count of vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. His bail is set at $250,000 and he remains in custody.
Singhateh does not have a license to drive and was driving a Ford F-150 pick-up truck around noon last Thursday near the intersection of Fourth Avenue South and South Washington Street.
Charging documents state he was driving 47 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone when he crashed into the back of a Prius taxi, which was stopped at a red light, without braking.
The crash pushed the taxi approximately 150 feet through the intersection, and “the two vehicles came to rest affixed to one another,” documents state.
One person in the taxi, 74-year-old Suzanne Blake, died from her injuries. Three other people in the car, two women and one man, all in their 70s, suffered various injuries. A 74-year-old woman had significant head trauma and required emergency surgery; her condition is unknown. A 77-year-old man had internal injuries and may require emergency surgery. A 75-year-old woman suffered broken ribs, a broken pelvis and required stitches for several face injuries. All of the taxi’s passengers were transported to Harborview Medical Center.
The taxi driver and Singhateh’s 36-year-old passenger, who is the registered owner of the truck, had minor injuries, documents state.
Results from a toxicology report are pending and will show if Singhateh was impaired from drug use. He did not appear for his first appearance hearing.