A driver hit a motorcycle rider on Sportsman Club Road on Saturday and then struck another car before police tracked the hit-and-run driver to his hiding place beneath some bushes near Bucklin Hill Road.

Police began receiving phone calls at approximately 6:12 p.m.  May 12 about a car that had hit a motorcycle rider on Sportsman Club Road. The motorcycle rider reportedly was bleeding on the side of the road and required medical aid.

While responding to the accident scene, police received other calls on another nearby hit-and-run.

Police searched the area for the suspected hit-and-run driver and found the vehicle believed to be involved in both crashes parked behind a pile of firewood off Bucklin Hill Road.

The engine was still hot but the driver was not present.

The officer on the scene, however, heard rustling in the nearby bushes. Police saw two tennis shoes sticking out from the vegetation, and found a man in his 50s hiding in the brush.

When asked to come out, the man allegedly told the officer, “You got me.”

He then bolted off into the woods, and the officer pursued.

Police caught up with the man after he fell and hit his head.

He was unconscious and had trouble breathing, according to a police report.

Medical aid was called in, but the man’s injury was so severe that he was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Police discovered a used hypodermic needle and a lighter in the vehicle the man had been driving. Marijuana was found in the man’s pocket.