It wasn’t the
wolf at the door
A 76-year-old woman baking cookies at home got an unwelcome visitor in her garden Wednesday afternoon — a red 3502 Nissan. At about 4:45 p.m. the car was driving on Lincoln Street and flipped upside-down, landing in the woman’s garden.
“I heard this ‘pow’ and panicked and called 911,” the lady said. “I thought they had died.”
The Silverdale man who was driving was not hurt, nor was his female passenger, a Kingston resident.
Neither wanted to comment at the time of the accident.
Poulsbo Police officers suspect the wet road played a role in the accident. There were no skid marks.
“I smelled no alcohol on his breath,” said Officer Ricki Sabado. “There is more to it, we just don’t know what.”
Sergeant Howard Leeming said the passenger and driver refused to say what caused the crash.
“Our concern is that there was another vehicle but we can’t make them tell us what happened,” Leeming said. “Luckily no one was hurt but I don’t know how.”
The car crushed the woman’s fence, causing garden bricks to fly about 20 feet across her yard. Numerous flowers were uprooted and her garden bed was destroyed.
“I work so hard on my yard,” she said through tears. “It was just such a shock.”
She turns 77 this week.
It wasn’t the beer,
it was a deer
A 48-year-old Kingston woman was arrested and booked into jail for driving under the influence April 20.
She side-swiped a utility pole with her white Subaru Legacy on NE Middle Street in Suquamish.
When officers arrived at the scene, she told them a deer had jumped the guard rail and ran in front of her vehicle.
According to police reports, she slurred her speech and smelled strongly of alcohol. Her eyes were watery and bloodshot and her pupils were dilated.
She refused to take a sobriety test and accused officers of not believing that a deer ran in front of her.
She continued to refuse a breath test two hours after the accident, according to reports. She was booked on $5,000 bail.
Her license was punched and she was booked in jail. Her bail was set at $5,000.
