Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Sunday, June 28

11:34 a.m. A 23-year-old tow truck driver from Kingston parked his truck on the northwest side of the Safeway parking lot when a 77-year-old woman backing up her 2003 Subaru Legacy struck the back end of the truck.

The tow truck was undamaged. While the man was in the process of obtaining the insurance information for the Subaru driver, she left the scene.

The driver was described as being “an elderly woman with gray hair and very angry.”

Bainbridge police located the driver at her home, and matched a piece of the Subaru taillight left at the scene to the vehicle’s rear light.

The driver said as she was unable to move her car, she demanded the driver move his truck by 3 feet. She said the truck driver had helped her back up and had caused her to hit the truck.

She said she was very upset about her dogs being in the car and it being hot and she wanted to leave.

In an additional conversation with the tow truck driver, he told police he was helping the woman back up her car and she appeared to have hit the gas, not the brake, as she was about an inch from hitting the truck. She blamed him for the damage and said he should have moved his truck.

The tow truck was in a safe area and would have been blocking the main entrance to Safeway had the driver moved forward.

The Subaru driver was not cited, as police determined there was not enough information to pursue a charge of hit-and-run.