EDMONDS — A woman crashed down an embankment Friday morning as she tried to outrun police.
Edmonds police were investigating whether the Honda she was driving was stolen.
The incident happened about 8:45 a.m. near 216th Street SW and Highway 99, where a sergeant pulled the woman over. As the officer approached the Honda the suspect drove off, Edmonds police Sgt. Josh McClure said.
A short distance away the woman, 20, lost control of the car and it landed in a deep ditch. She tried to get out of Honda but her escape efforts were thwarted as the car started sinking deeper into the muck and water in the ditch.
She was arrested and taken to Swedish Edmonds as a precaution.
Edmonds officers learned that she’d been stopped in Shoreline about two hours earlier and given a ticket. At the time she had outstanding warrants out of Edmonds, McClure said. It wasn’t clear Friday why she wasn’t taken into custody in Shoreline.
In a press release Edmonds police said the warrants were “not extraditable.” That would indicate that police officers wouldn’t travel outside Edmonds to take her into custody on the city warrants.
The woman was booked into Snohomish County Jail for investigation of attempting to elude a police vehicle. The case remains under investigation.
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