UPDATE: Driver jailed after allegedly hitting at least 4 other vehicles near Ercolini Park

10:42 PM: If you’re west of The Junction and wondering about the police response in the Ercolini Park area – radio communication indicates police are investigating a driver who is suspected of hitting at least four other vehicles, including an SPD car. The civilian vehicles that were hit are reported to be along 48th SW near Oregon. No injuries reported.

11:38 PM: Photo added. The pickup in the photo was subsequently being towed. We’ll follow up with SPD in the morning.

10:49 AM: Per online records, the 60-year-old driver was booked into King County Jail for investigation of DUI.

HotCoffee October 24, 2018 (10:54 am)

Must’ve been something in the air. A hit-and-run involved car was dumped in our driveway in Admiral a few hours later. Woke up by the SPD at 0130 asking about the car that the other driver had followed to our street. Unnerving that they couldn’t find the driver who disappeared, and then had to tow the car out.

WSB October 24, 2018 (11:07 am)

This sort of thing happens all too many nights. In the case of this incident, SPD just happened to be in the area – and apparently in the path of the alleged drunk driver! – because they’d gotten a call about an injured raccoon in the middle of the street. Strange but true. I believe I heard the dispatch on your call, cops sent to a report of a driver following someone who had been involved in a hit-run.- TR

NW Mama October 24, 2018 (12:35 pm)

Seriously! People still drive drunk? Ever heard of Uber, Lyft, the bus… or walking?

Swede. October 24, 2018 (12:40 pm)

Or stoned. ‘It’s legal now you know!’
- WSB October 24, 2018 (12:46 pm)
  
  Driving under the influence of marijuana is no more legal than driving under the influence of alcohol. Driving impaired, whatever the substance, continues to take a horrifying toll:
  
  http://www.wsp.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/101218_WSP-In-King-County-Has-Investigated-Eight-Traffic-Related-Deaths-In-Seven-Days.pdf
  - Swede. October 24, 2018 (2:54 pm)
    
    I know, was just a joke to all stones that don’t understand that, or that it’s also smoking and have to abide to the 25′ rule etc. I’m part of a group that it doesn’t apply to anyway due to federal laws.
- KM October 24, 2018 (1:11 pm)
  
  Ah, that’s my response to mobile phones. Also legal to use in most situations, but often used illegally behind the wheel (or legally behind the wheel in jurisdictions with terrible traffic laws).