Woman injured after being rammed by car into building

Suspect later arrested in Pierce County

A vehicular assault outside a convenience store on Highway 3 Feb. 27 left a 48-year-old woman injured after a driver appeared to deliberately ram a car into her, officials said.

That same driver may have also tried to run down a man as he was walking along Highway 3, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office says in a Facebook post.

The woman was at the Hilltop store near Poulsbo around 6:30 p.m. with her husband. As the two returned to their car from inside the store, the woman grabbed some trash and walked to a nearby garbage can to throw it away.

Video surveillance footage shows as she did, a white or silver Lexus pulled into the parking lot at a high rate of speed, lined up with the woman and drove into her hitting her from behind, forcing her into a steel and glass wall where she was pinned between the car and the front wall of the store, per KCSO.

The car backed away, turned around and drove off at a high rate of speed. The woman collapsed. She was treated by Poulsbo Fire Department personnel for injuries to her legs.

When KCSO deputies arrived a man described a car like the onethat hit the woman that veered toward him as he walked northbound along Highway 3, about one mile south of the store. The man said he shouted at the driver, who made a U-turn and drove toward him, forcing him to jump into a ditch to avoid being hit. The vehicle again drove away at a high rate of speed.

Deputies later learned the driver was suspected in a carjacking and hit and run in Pierce County. He was arrested by U.S. Army Military Police after illegally entering Joint Base Lewis McChord in the suspect vehicle.