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Two Women Seriously Injured By Car Speeding Through Seattle Freeway Closed by Protesters

The car breached a blockade on a Seattle highway set up by protester.

Two women were seriously hurt, including one who faces life-threatening injuries, when a car sped through a blockade set up by protesters on Seattle Interstate 5 just before midnight late Friday night. Video posted to social media shows a white car careening into a group of protesters, sending two into the air, after navigating around two vehicles that were meant to block the highway. One of the victims, Diaz Love, 32, livestreamed the protest and subsequent attack to Facebook. She and the other victim, 24-year-old Summer Taylor, were taken to the intensive care unit of a nearby hospital. The driver, a 27-year-old man from Seattle named Dawit Kelete, was in custody, said Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead, who added that impairment was not considered a factor. Kelete is charged with two counts of vehicular assault. The man allegedly drove the wrong way onto the freeway, but troopers hadn’t yet determined if it was a targeted attack. Protesters have shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row