Kent Police recently made its 100th DUI arrest of 2023 when an officer came upon a vehicle in a ditch on the southwest corner of the Willis Street roundabout at Fourth Avenue South.
The vehicle was parked at about 4:39 a.m. July 22 atop two electrical boxes, according to a July 28 Kent Police statement. The vehicle’s path of destruction reportedly had more than 100 feet of track marks in the beauty bark.
The tracks reportedly showed the vehicle’s trajectory through foliage, across a pedestrian walkway, a narrow miss of a streetlamp pole and then the resting point in more foliage and atop the electrical boxes, according to police.
The driver, a 22-year-old Seattle woman, didn’t know what time it was, didn’t know how she got to Kent and claimed to have only had two to three shots of tequila at a friend’s house, according to police. Officers noted they saw multiple bottles of tequila on the floorboard behind the passenger’s seat.
“We are thankful that we are fixing electrical boxes and not sending pedestrians or innocent victims to the hospital, or worse,” according to the police statement. “Please stop drinking and driving. Get help, get a driver, stay where you party. It’s just that easy. Absolutely zero excuse to endanger other people.”
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https://www.kentwa.gov/…/dui-court/dui-court-resources
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