A 31-year-old Bainbridge Island woman was arrested for driving under the influence after she slammed her Ford F150 pickup into the back of a Volkswagen Passat that was parked in front of her at the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal.

The woman was charged with DUI last week in Kitsap County District Court.

Authorities said the crash happened at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19 in the vehicle loading lanes at the ferry terminal.

The Washington State Patrol investigated the incident and found the Ford and the Volkswagen in Lane 2 of the terminal’s parking lot for vehicles boarding the ferry.

A man told the officer he had been driving the Ford earlier, and claimed that nobody had been in the truck when it lurched forward and struck the VW.

The driver of the VW, however, told police that the Bainbridge woman had been behind the wheel of the pickup truck, and he showed police a photograph he had taken with his phone of the woman sitting in the driver’s seat of the Ford pickup right after it had hit his car.

When questioned by police, the woman said she had jumped into the truck to step on the brakes.

An officer noticed that the woman’s eyes were bloodshot and droopy, and her breath smelled of intoxicants.

When asked if she had anything to drink, the woman said she had consumed beer at 7:30 a.m. The Bainbridge woman then added that she didn’t drink in the morning.

The woman was swaying as she spoke, and police asked her to take field sobriety tests.

During the tests, the woman displayed both physical and mental impairment, according to the WSP investigation report.

The woman refused to take a breath test, and was then arrested and taken to the Bainbridge Island Police Department.

Once at the station, she refused to sign paperwork related to her arrest, but said she would provide a breath sample.

Attempts to get a breath sample proved elusive.

The woman would not follow directions on how to blow into the tube, and would start and then stop blowing so she could talk about being a smoker. She then started moving her jaw to disrupt the flow of air into the tube of the breathalyzer.

Police noted that her failure to give a proper breath sample was actually a refusal to take the test, and it was made part of the criminal complaint filed in court.

Conviction of driving under the influence can result in a maximum sentence of 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine.