SEQUIM — A car race and chase around Sequim’s busy streets ended in a collision and crash near the athletic fields north of Sequim High School at about 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Three young men were being held for questioning and possible charges Tuesday night.
Police released only limited details because a report on the investigation was incomplete, said Officer Maris Turner, police spokeswoman.
The identifications of the men in custody and other details of the incident and arrest information would not be available until today, Turner said.
“Three adult males have been taken into custody for questioning at this point” was all Turner said she could share late Tuesday.
No one was hurt in the crash, and no ambulances were called to the scene.
The young men taken into custody were not high school students, Turner said.
“We kept getting reports, all within a few minutes,” Turner said at the scene.
Police learned from several callers in Sequim that two vehicles were “racing through town” and down several streets.
Sequim officers swarmed onto the crash scene near the corner of Hendrickson Road and North Sequim Avenue, and officers apparently chased down one of the men on foot.
He was described over a police radio — by a winded officer in apparent pursuit — as a shirtless man with tattoos.
Police were questioning two others in the parking lot of Paradise Restaurant, where two cars collided.
One of the vehicles, an older-model Dodge Aurora, was found damaged, high-centered and abandoned where it rode up on the landscaped Hendrickson Road median, its windshield wipers still intermittently flapping.
Ralph Klein, who lives near the scene on Hendrickson Road, described hearing cars speeding, tires squealing and cars running into each other.
“Two kids came out of one car and pulled the other guy out of the other car and kind of started beating on him,” Klein recalled.
He said he heard an argument about money, and one of the men took off running from the scene.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
