Charges filed following Port Ludlow car crash

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The Bremerton woman who crashed her car into a home on Paradise Bay Road in Port Ludlow earlier this month has been charged with driving under the influence and reckless endangerment in Jefferson County District Court.

Evelyn Alice Carty was arrested after the wreck on Friday, Sept. 2.

Authorities said Carty, 25, was driving along Paradise Bay Road when her vehicle went off the road, flipped over, and hit a house.

The car came to rest on its roof, and deputies discovered the room that had been crushed by the impact was a young child’s bedroom, but the child escaped without injury.

Deputies found the driver and a child passenger had climbed out of the vehicle, and both were bloody from cuts.

The child was screaming and crying, and couldn’t tell deputies what had happened because she was autistic, according to a probable cause report for Carty’s arrest.

The child was eventually taken to St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale for treatment.

According to the sheriff’s office report on the crash, Carty smelled of alcohol and her eyes were watery and bloodshot. She told police she had two shots of alcohol before driving.

Carty failed field sobriety tests and was given a portable breath test at the scene that measured .163. 

Breath tests taken later at the Port Townsend Police Department had results of .154 and .161, according to a DUI arrest report.

Carty was cleared at Jefferson Healthcare Medical Center before she was booked into jail.

Criminal citations against Carty were filed in Jefferson County District Court on Sept. 6.