BREMERTON – A Bremerton woman racked up a series of traffic violations after she led Bremerton and Port Orchard police on a wild chase Dec. 4.

According to court documents, the incident began when the 26-year-old woman allegedly wound up in a fight with a man she knew on Bay Vista Boulevard in Bremerton. During the incident, the woman got into a blue Nissan sedan and allegedly knocked the man over with the car. Bremerton Police arrived and the woman sped off. She blew past stop signs as she drove to Oyster Bay Avenue, Arsenal Way and National Avenue. The woman then drove through a red light on Loxie Eagans Boulevard and got onto State Route 3, weaving in and out of traffic.

She exited SR3 and began driving toward Port Orchard along Bay Street. Port Orchard police were informed of the woman and began to follow her. The woman allegedly used the center turn lane to pass other vehicles as she sped along. One officer stopped pursuing the vehicle because of the heavy vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the downtown area. Another officer began to follow the Nissan, however, and observed the woman run a red light at the intersection of Bay Street and Bethel Road.

Two other officers were waiting for her with spike strips at the Bethel Road roundabout, but the woman spotted them and made an unsignaled U-turn at a speed that caused her to leave the roadway and drive up over a curb and onto the hill side. She then turned back onto Bay Street where police finally caught up with her.

“When asked why she did not stop when she saw the police car arrive, (the woman) said she got scared,” a Bremerton officer wrote in a report.

She was charged with attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. Port Orchard police cited her with criminal citations for reckless driving and reckless endangerment, and for failure to signal lane change, driving with wheels off the roadway, no proof of insurance, driving with defective tires, failure to stop at a traffic signal, unsafe passing, illegal passing and unsafe lane change.