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A 30-year-old man was bicycling north in the bike lane on Valenica Street when a 19-year-old woman veered into the bike lane and pinned him against a parked van. The driver then fled the scene, and the man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening internal injuries. After the incident, police located the woman and arrested her. She is believed to have been driving under the influence at the time of the crash.
The only person seriously hurt was the driver who investigators say caused the wreck. Officers said they believe the woman was intoxicated. Dispatchers first started getting calls about her driving an SUV erratically about 6 p.m. The driver continued into Bellevue before she made her way back to Redmond. Police said she hit one car then, then another, after running over spike strips and crashing on Avondale Road. “The 30-year-old driver was actually pinned in the vehicle. She had to be extricated and was taken to Harborview.