HANSVILLE — A 19-year-old Suquamish woman was arrested for biting and punching medical responders Sunday after wrecking a car in Hansville.

Several Hansville residents reported seeing a burgundy passenger car wreck into a ditch on the corner shortly before 3 p.m. on Twin Spits Road near Hood Canal Drive, according to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s report. The car struck two safety poles and a telephone pole, and severed a fire hydrant at its base, causing a water leak.

Witnesses saw the Suquamish driver walk away from the scene following the crash and a male passenger took the wheel and began to drive away.

Both the Suquamish woman and the man, a 28-year-old Bainbridge Island resident, were being treated by medics for cuts when Sheriff’s deputies arrived.

The man told a Sheriff’s deputy the pair had been drinking behind a Texaco station in old town Silverdale and were on their way to Buck Lake Park. The man said their car had been run off the road by a white SUV, an account not corroborated by witnesses, according to the report.

The deputy found several malt liquor cans and a liquor bottle in the car.

The man and woman were taken to Harrison Medical Center for further treatment. The woman struck a male paramedic in the groin and bit his thumb, then punched a nurse in the neck, the report said.

She was booked into Kitsap County jail on two counts of third-degree assault. The man was cooperative and was treated and released.