PORT ORCHARD –  An early evening single-vehicle crash sent four occupants to area hospitals on June 9.

The crash occurred when a 21-year-old Bremerton woman who was driving a 2014 Jeep Compass SUV westbound on Glenwood Road SW failed to negotiate a curve to the left where the roadway turns southbound. (See map below).

The Jeep left the road just south of the intersection with SW Hunter Road when the SUV began to rotate clockwise.

The Jeep then collided with a large utility pole on the south shoulder of the roadway at the 14400 block of Glenwood Road SW, at the intersection with SW Hunter Road around 7:27 p.m.

Patrol deputies and traffic investigators of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and engine and medic units from South Kitsap Fire and Rescue responded to the crash.

Investigators believe that excessive vehicle speed and the apparent consumption of alcoholic intoxicants by the driver are two primary causes of this crash.

The driver was transported by medic unit to Tacoma General Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. Deputies developed probable cause that the driver had consumed alcoholic intoxicants. A sample of the driver’s blood was obtained during a blood draw under authority of a search warrant.

There were four other people in the SUV including a 17-year-old girl from Olalla, an 18-year-old Bremerton man, a 17-year-old South Kitsap boy and a 18-year-old Olalla woman.

One passenger was transported to Tacoma General Hospital with serious injuries. Another passenger was transported to Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Tacoma, with possible head trauma. Another passenger was transported to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton with a possible closed head injury. The fourth passenger sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene and released