SUV plunges 17 feet at SW Redmond intersection

A Redmond woman and her two young children escaped serious injury Thursday morning when their SUV jumped a curb, ran through a small fence and careened off a 17-foot-tall rock wall, crashing onto large trash receptacles below, police said. The driver faces reckless driving and endangering charges.

Police and fire medics responded around 8:40 a.m. to the crash at the corner of SW 27 th Street and Highland Avenue (Highway 126), said Lt. Nathan Garibay.

Garibay said police determined that Alba Yazmin Venegas-Perez, 29, had been driving a 1998 Grand Cherokee east on Highland and tried to turn north (left) onto 27 th Street when it jumped a curb and sidewalk, went through a small pedestrian fence and tumbled from the 17-foot retaining wall into the parking lot below.

Fire medics took Venegas-Perez and her children to St. Charles-Redmond for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, the lieutenant said.

She was cited and released on one count of reckless driving and two counts of reckless endangering, the officer said. Garibay said alcohol did not appear to play a factor in the crash.

Lt. Keith Knight said they were very fortunate that the injuries were not more severe.