One person was killed this morning in a car accident at Alexander Avenue East and 12th Street East in Tacoma, the Tacoma Police Department said. The crash, which involved one vehicle, happened just after 3 a.m.

Tacoma Police spokesman Naveed Benjamin said the car left the roadway at a high rate of speed and crashed into an embankment in the 1200 block of East Alexander Avenue shortly after 3 a.m.

The driver, a male, died at the scene. He was the sole occupant of the vehicle.

Crews have started cleaning up a highly flammable liquid that spilled inside a cargo ship and on the dock area of the Washington United Terminal at the Port of Tacoma early today.

The terminal, 1815 Port of Tacoma Road, is closed as crews do their work, Tacoma fire spokesman Joe Meinecke said. He anticipated the work will keep the terminal closed for another couple of hours.

Tacoma firefighters were called to the terminal just after 3:50 a.m. today for reports of a hazardous materials spill.

Crew members were off-loading a container from the Hyundai Oakland cargo ship when they noticed …

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The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a report of a log ship listing in the Port of Tacoma’s Hylebos Waterway, port spokeswoman Tara Mattina said.

“It does appear to be listing,” she said of the ship which started tipping between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m.

She said a port officials estimated the ship was listing to the starboard about 7 degrees.

The question is whether the listing is due to the load or because it is touching on bottom of the waterway as the tide goes out, Mattina said. The listing could get worse until the tide changes, she …

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