Washington woman killed by DUI driver after lying in road amid fight with husband

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Police said a woman who was hit and killed by an SUV in Kent this weekend had laid down in the road during an argument with her husband, who she had hit with a meat tenderizer.

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The woman’s husband called 911 late Saturday night to report that she was hitting him. During the call, police learned about an auto-pedestrian collision in the area just as the man began crying and saying something about his wife.

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When police arrived on 106th Ave. S.E., they found the woman dead on the side of the road after being run over by a Ford Expedition. They learned she had been chasing her husband with the meat tenderizer, but stopped and laid down in the road before being hit.

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Police said they talked to the driver, who told them he hadn’t realized he hit anybody but stopped because he saw people waving at him in the mirror.

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Police thought the driver might be drunk. They gave him a blood test and he blew a .21, well above the legal limit of .08. The man told police he’d had three beers and three shots at a friend’s birthday party.

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Police said when they got to the station, the driver “forgot he had hit and killed someone despite being told so at the scene.”

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