The suspect, 28, of Everett, was behind bars Monday, accused of vehicular assault.
EVERETT — A crash on I-5 despatched a driver to the hospital and a suspected drunken driver to jail over the weekend in Everett.
An Everett man was driving a grey 2020 Volkswagen round 2 a.m. Christmas morning, headed south on I-5 simply north of E Marine View Drive, in keeping with a Washington State Patrol report filed in courtroom Monday.
A purple 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer reportedly struck the middle divider and stopped on the freeway. The Volkswagen crashed into the Mitsubishi and flipped the wrong way up.
The Mitsubishi driver, 42, of Seattle, suffered a fractured pelvis and ruptured spleen, in keeping with a state trooper’s report. The person was transported to Windfall Regional Medical Middle Everett.
The Volkswagen driver, 28, agreed to take a subject sobriety take a look at on the scene of the crash.
The person’s eyes reportedly appeared “bloodshot and watery,” and he smelled like intoxicants, in keeping with the trooper’s account. He reported to regulation enforcement he was on his manner residence from the Tulalip Resort On line casino, the place he claimed to have consumed two alcoholic drinks.
The person carried out poorly within the sobriety take a look at and his preliminary breath take a look at prompt he had a blood-alcohol content material above the authorized restrict of 0.08, the trooper wrote. He was arrested and booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of vehicular assault.
The suspect was in custody Monday with bail set at $15,000.
