Bainbridge blotter | Wrecked and abandoned

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 10

7 p.m. A 1988 Chevy Suburban was found wrecked and abandoned near the intersection of Blakely Avenue and Country Club Road.

The car had left the road, police said, and come to rest on its left side, sustaining heavy damage. The windshield was in place but shattered, and both the driver and passengers side windows were broken, as well.

There was nobody near the scene; driver, passenger or witnesses.

Tire marks on the road and in the gravel, police said, indicated the car was traveling east on Blakely. Marks appeared to reveal that the right front and rear wheels left the road, and the driver over-corrected, causing the car to “careen” across the center line and then come back to the right lane and hit a wooden speed limit sign before going off the road completely on the right.

Clothes and a backpack were found near the car. Inside the vehicle, police found a 6-foot-long collapsible plastic table, a cell phone and wallet and two pocket knives.

More clothes were scattered around the car and there was a large blood smear on the right side of the driver’s seat.

After a thorough search, nobody was found in the area, injured or otherwise.

Police retrieved the registration and insurance documents from inside the car and contacted the owner. He was in Colorado, but had allowed his girlfriend’s teenage son, he said, to use the car in his absence. He provided phone numbers for the woman and her son.

The son’s number was for the phone found in the car.

Several attempts to contact the teen were unsuccessful.

Harrison Medical Center reported that no patient with the son’s name had come seeking medical attention.

The car was righted and removed from the scene and impounded as abandoned. The owner was informed.

The case remains open at this time.