UPDATE: Kirkland Police Investigate Car in Bushes at Juanita Bay Park

UPDATE, 9:30 AM. NOV. 14: A 29-year-old Kirkland man is being investigated for allegedly driving his car off 98th Avene NE and into the bushes at Juanita Bay Park early Sunday morning, and then leaving the scene, Kirkland Police Det. Allan O'Neill said Monday morning.

The man was arrested Sunday, booked and released pending an investigation for suspicion of driving under the infuence and hit and run. He apparently lost control of his vehcle, slid across the road and hit a traffic sign before coming to a stop in the brush nearby.

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Original story:

Kirkland Police officers investigated a vehicle that left 98th Avenue NE apparently late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and ended up in the brush at Juanita Bay Park.

The late model vehicle appears to have been been abandoned after the accident. No one associated with the accident was on the scene Sunday morning at about 9 a.m. when two police cruisers arrived to secure the area, closing the right-hand southbound lane of 98th Avenue by marking it with flares.

From skid marks at the scene it appears that the driver was northound on 98th at a high rate of speed just north of Forbes Creek Drive and lost control, sliding off the roadway and across the two soutbound lanes of 98th, the car ending up in dense blackberry bushes on the edge of the park.

The front passenger side window of the car was missing. An officer on the scene said the police had just arrived and did not know yet what had happened.

Kirkland Patch will update the story as soon as details are available.