Charged with vehicular assault, DUI

A Camano Island man was booked into Whitman County Jail after Pullman Police arrested him at a collision scene Monday evening.

According to the police report, Officer Josh Bray 7:00 p.m. at North Grand Avenue and Whitman Street came upon a rear-end collision as it was being reported. When he approached the first vehicle, the driver door was open and the driver had one foot on the ground, the other inside. Bray observed an unopened can of an alcoholic beverage on the floorboard. The driver also exhibited slow, slurred speech and droopy eyes.

The driver of the second vehicle was transported by ambulance for concussion evaluation. According to the report, the driver had memory loss from the time of the collision and was later released from the hospital.

By the time Bray returned to the first vehicle, the beverage can had been moved, the report states, and the driver allegedly did not know where it went. Bray administered field sobriety tests and arrested John Odegaard, 53, for driving under the influence. Officers were advised Odegaard had a pre-trial ignition interlock device restriction. There was no device in the vehicle he had been driving.

Odegaard was booked on charges of vehicular assault, DUI and ignition interlock violation.

Bail was set at $200,000 surety or $20,000 cash. He was scheduled for arraignment Aug. 14.