Bainbridge blotter | Pedestrian hit by unlicensed teen driver

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27

5:45 p.m. A 17-year-old Bainbridge Island girl, driving a 2002 Ford pickup, struck a pedestrian while reversing out of a parking space on Lynwood Center Road, near the Point White Drive intersection.

The girl backed across both lanes and struck a 50-year-old Bainbridge woman who was loading groceries into her vehicle, which was parked on the road shoulder.

She was, according to a police report, pinned between the vehicles.

The teenager then moved her truck back into the parking spot and got out to speak with the women she’d hit. According to witnesses, there was verbal exchange between the two, the older woman took a photo of the truck’s license plate, and the driver left.

Paramedics responded and spoke with the woman, who seemed uninjured but was transported to a Bremerton hospital for evaluation.

Police contacted the teenager a few miles from the scene. Her version of events matched the older woman’s, as did the story told by the girl’s passenger, another Bainbridge teen.

However, the driver was found to not be legally licensed in the state and had no insurance.