Bainbridge blotter | Distracted driver blamed for Highway 305 crash

Published 1:09 pm Thursday, December 25, 2014

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter:

Saturday, Dec. 13

9:52 p.m. A caller reported hearing a large crash near Ferncliff Avenue and Wing Point Way. Police found a 25-year-old man on the side of the road changing a tire, and the vehicle appeared to have front bumper damage from going off the road.

The man became very distraught and started crying while talking to an officer, and said he had gone out with a friend earlier for a pitcher of beer.

The man was given roadside sobriety tests and had a reading of .152 on a breath test. He was arrested and taken to Kitsap County Jail.

Friday, Dec. 12

10:08 a.m. A 27-year-old Suquamish man caused a three-car accident after he hit another vehicle — and that vehicle hit the vehicle in front of it — when the first driver failed to stop at the stoplight on Highway 305 at Day Road.

The Suquamish man said he was driving south and adjusting his radio and didn’t see the traffic ahead. He rear-ended a 1994 Toyota pickup driven by a 19-year-old Seattle man, and the Toyota then struck a 2000 Toyota Tundra that was driven by a 53-year-old Silverdale man.

The Suquamish driver was cited for inattentive driving.

12:35 p.m. A 30-year-old man said his Dodge Sprinter van was dented by a hit-and-run driver.

The man said his van had been parked on Woodbank Drive NE when a car leaving a private driveway near the road’s intersection with Fletcher Bay Road NE backed into his vehicle, then drove away.

A witness described the other vehicle as an older model, dark blue minivan.