PORT HADLOCK — One person was taken to a hospital after a driver in the Port Hadlock QFC parking lot backed into one car before pulling forward and striking another car, driving it into a nearby bus stop Thursday afternoon.
An unidentified woman bicyclist who had been sitting on the bench at the Jefferson Transit QFC bus stop facing Irondale Road suffered lower back and possible neck injuries and was transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital for evaluation, said Bill Beezley, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue spokesman.
Another bus stop occupant refused medical treatment, he said.
Fire Chief Gordon Pomeroy was driving by when he saw the wreck.
“I saw a woman fly into the air and a car exiting QFC parking lot at a high rate of speed,” he said. “I got on the radio and called in the accident to bring in our people.”
First car hit
Beezley said witnesses told firefighters that an unidentified elderly driver of a Chevrolet Lumina backed out of a parking space near the front of the QFC building and struck another car.
The driver of the Lumina then placed his car in “drive” and gunned the engine, sending the car over the parking space curb, through the parking space on the other side and into the left rear panel of a Subaru Outback wagon that was parked directly behind the bus stop.
The Subaru spun around and crashed into the bus stop, while the Lumina continued on into Irondale Road.
The driver of the Lumina eventually slowed down enough to return to the parking lot, Beezley said, adding that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
