Driver thanks man who hit him on purpose
By Sean Collins Walsh
Seattle Times staff reporter
Bill Pace, left, meets Duane Innes for a thank-you dinner at a Bellevue restaurant Monday. On July 23, Pace slumped over the wheel of his truck and Innes engineered a crash to stop the truck.
Bill Pace, left, talks with Duane Innes at Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant. “For all the good that he’s done, he’s probably deserving of a few extra lives,” Innes said of Pace.
Driving to a Mariners game, Duane Innes saw a pickup ahead of him drift across lanes of traffic, sideswipe a concrete barrier and continue forward on the inside shoulder at about 40 mph.
A manager of Boeing’s F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — “there was no time to take a vote” — Innes kicked into engineer mode.