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YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima police Wednesday night arrested a 45-year-old man they said crashed into a parked car, a garbage bin, a crosswalk button and a power pole during a pursuit.
About 11 p.m., an officer spotted a 1997 Ford Taurus without headlights activated leaving a parking lot in the 300 block of West Nob Hill Boulevard and straddling traffic lanes, police said.
The driver ignored the officer's attempts to pull him over, continuing east on Nob Hill, north on First Street and across Yakima Avenue at speeds at or slightly above the speed limit, police said.
Along the way, the driver struck a parked car, a garbage bin, pedestrian crosswalk button pole and a power pole, shearing it off from the ground before coming to a stop in the 700 block of an alley between North Second Street and North Third Street, police said.
The driver jumped out of the car and tried to run but the officer stopped him with a Taser. He was taken to a hospital for injuries sustained in the accident and booked into the Yakima County jail, the release said.
Police plan to ask prosecutors to charge the Yakima man with four counts of hit and run, felony eluding and a DUI, police said.
— Ross Courtney
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