From Josh:
Last night at approximately 1:30 am my wife and I witnessed a hit and run accident on Admiral Way.
We had just merged onto Admiral Way from the lower bridge route. I noticed behind me a black sedan swerving as it approached my rear at a very high rate of speed, once onto Admiral Way I merged over to the far right lane. After changing lanes I noticed the black sedan behind me could not maintain a lane and had struck the median where the bridge off ramp and the lower bridge off ramp meet; I slowed down as my wife watched behind us. The black sedan then picked up speed at a very high rate while driving on the shoulder; at this time I was pulled off the road near the 3300 block of SW Admiral Way. As the car picked up speed in the shoulder lane, I told my wife “he’s going to hit that car parked on the shoulder”; two seconds after I said that, the black sedan slammed into the parked car and a huge plume of smoke went into the air. After witnessing the crash I turned my car around and went to go see if the driver was okay as we approached the black sedan, the car pulled onto Admiral Way and fled the scene; the car the black sedan hit had sustained serious rear-end damage. At this time I was able to identify the car: late ’90s Black Ford Taurus WA plate ABV—-. As the Ford went up the Admiral hill, an immense amount of smoke followed behind the car. At this time I called 911 to report the incident, by this time I was parked in the Safeway gas station. While on the phone with the 911 operator my wife and I saw the black Ford came from the southbound side of 41st Ave SW and the car pulled back onto Admiral Way and proceeded west.
I haven’t heard or seen any updates in regards to this incident, but I thought the West Seattle Blog should be made aware. Also I want the victim of the incident to know that they have two witnesses if they should need them.
SPD’s time-lagged “incident response” map hasn’t worked for several days, so we have no way to look up whether a report was filed, but if you were the victim, you should be able to find out from police. (Josh provided the full plate number to police; we only publish the first part if a case is in the early stages.)
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