Car crashes into Wash. school, drives down hall
SHORELINE, Wash. (AP) – Sheriff's deputies say a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall.
The incident happened around 10 p.m. Friday night. King County Sheriff spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart says that the boy, a Shorecrest student, drove the 2002 Subaru Outback through an entrance and 75 yards down a hallway before crashing into the school's security office. Police believe the crash was intentional.
Two school workers were still on the property and heard the crash. They were not hurt.
Police found the teen on school grounds about an hour and a half after the crash late Friday night. He was taken into custody and then brought to Harborview Medical Center for a mental evaluation. Investigators say the teen was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Investigators contacted the car's registered owners, the teen's parents, soon after the crash. The car was pushed out of the hallway and driven off by the teen's parents on Saturday.
Shoreline School District spokesman Craig Degginger said Shorecrest did not suffer serious structural damage from the crash and that school would begin on time on Monday.
As an aside, Shorecrest High School was the subject of a KATU story after it waged a music-video "war" with a rival Washington high school, Shorewood High, late last year.
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