UPDATE: Police investigate another SUV abandoned on West Seattle beach

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5:54 PM FRIDAY: Thanks to Craig for the photo. Police responded to West Seattle’s southwesternmost shore this afternoon – between Seola Beach and The Arroyos – to try to sort out how that Jeep Compass ended up in the water. First they had to be sure nobody was in the water. Dispatch checked the logs, and consulted the King County Sheriff’s Office, since this is close to the city-limit line, and found out a few things.

KCSO had a report of a hit-run around midnight involving a vehicle matching this description, near 30th/106th. And someone in the area reported giving the vehicle’s driver a ride to a bus stop around 1 am. What explanation they gave, we don’t know. Police who were back at the scene around 4 pm said they couldn’t access the vehicle because of the tide, which is going back out now.

P.S. Last reported case of SUV-on-the-beach was four weeks ago at Lincoln Park.

ADDED NOON SATURDAY: Thanks to the texter who sent this photo, saying it’s still there as of this morning:

It’s not visible from the public ends of either Arroyo Beach Drive or Seola Beach Drive – we tried looking Friday evening – so don’t bother trying to gawk.

Sillygoose April 19, 2024 (6:52 pm)

Do the buses have cameras?

KD April 19, 2024 (8:37 pm)

Yes, almost all of the fleet does

“Tired” April 19, 2024 (7:34 pm)

Related, as a frequent walker of Lincoln Park’s upper trails, I noticed huge tire ruts in the soft mud along many of the walkways just after the last vehicle ended up in the Sound. I suspect the joy rider hoodlums had a heck of a good time before heading down to the lower trail. Let’s hope these idiots get caught before someone is run over or drowned.

WSB April 19, 2024 (8:15 pm)

It might be more recent than that. I have heard a couple dispatches in the past few weeks for possible driving on the trails, gone by the time police got there to look.
Rhonda April 19, 2024 (9:11 pm)

Yes, a man I spoke to a couple weeks ago told me he ran into an SUV full of young men driving around the upper Lincoln Park trails the previous night.
- waikikigirl April 20, 2024 (6:45 am)
  
  Why are these “kids” doing this is it a monkey-see monkey-do thing or is it a “new” internet challenge?
IHeartBPP April 20, 2024 (3:25 pm)

I first noticed the deep tire ruts on the trails the morning after the GMC suv was found in the water. I wonder if they were related.

Josh April 20, 2024 (7:12 am)

All the shenanigans about how pickleball and an off leash area somehow being so so bad for the wildlife is absurd knowing that the park is being used as an ORV area and given how every time I go there are abundant off leash dogs through out the park and especially on the beaches, most often on the marine sanctuary side. If the park had a pickleball court with, dare I say lighting until 10pm the scofflaw use would probably go down.

WSLUV April 20, 2024 (10:46 am)

@Josh – I’m curious if you actually believe that providing a pickleball court with lighting (aka, a place for these types of low-lifes to spin their tires, hang out, etc.) will REDUCE the number of bad actors in the park at or after 10 pm? I have to say…thanks for the laugh with my morning coffee. I’ll be laughing about that logic of yours all day.
- AMD April 21, 2024 (8:08 am)
  
  There is no plan for lighting at the Lincoln Park pickleball courts. It’s currently a maintenance storage facility, which is hardly uninviting for scofflaws, so I’m not really following your logic.

Actually Mike April 20, 2024 (7:36 am)

In all my years in Singapore, never saw anything like this–not once, and Singapore is an island (you know, SURROUNDED by water). Seattle needs to find out what they do differently over there and take similar measures here–before somebody gets killed as a result of these punks’ pranks.

Ferns April 21, 2024 (12:51 am)

Well if you’re implying that the city of Seattle should start caning minors as physical punishment, no, Singapore can keep its suv free waters. I bet you didn’t see a lot of gum chewing either in all your years in Singapore.

batgurrl April 20, 2024 (9:19 am)

I live above this area and have been on that beach many times. They must have gotten down to the beach at low tide or lower tide where the Arroyos has a small park. They just drove thru the drift wood and onto the beach. My guess.Then south towards where it got stuck. That area is not as beach friendly with rock versus softer sand & lots of mucky sand tide pools. A big shame because the area is full of marine life on the rocks. Seola Drive ends at a bulkhead with chain-link fence over it. Because the city does not own the tide flats it is walled off from people getting down at that spot. They couldn’t access thru there but then a couple houses down there do have boat launch drives. Be interesting to see how they did it. Only other time I have seen a car on the beach around Seola was when a mud slide on Standring Lane pushed a house off it’s foundation in 2015 and the owners car was pushed into the sound.

Seola April 20, 2024 (2:14 pm)

They (she?) crashed the private gate at 30th SW surprisingly that didn’t stop them, then drove to a house with a private boat ramp, accessed the beach and drove north about 15 houses. Lots more to the story, let the police do their report.

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