Central Kitsap resident Alana Kemppainen-Cartwright, 23, was killed early in the morning Wednesday, Sept. 10, after being struck by vehicle in the 5500 block of Tracyton Boulevard. A 25-year-old man she was walking with was also hit by the car and was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with critical injuries.

The driver of the four-door Subaru Legacy that struck Kemppainen-Cartwright and the 25-year-old man was arrested by sheriff’s deputies and booked into Kitsap County Jail for one count of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault. The collision, which occurred near the site of the former Tracyton Elementary School, was first reported at 2:17 a.m.

Deputy Scott Wilson, a spokesman for the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, says the driver is a 26-year-old Bremerton resident. Also in the vehicle with him were a 29-year-old man from Poulsbo in the backseat and another man in the front passenger seat who fled the scene following the collision.

“The right front-seat passenger bailed and fled so we’re still trying to determine his exact identity to go and talk to him,” Wilson said late Wednesday morning.

Wilson said the occupants of the vehicle and the pedestrians had all been at the Tracyton Tavern earlier in the night, but he didn’t know if they all knew each other. He said Kemppainen-Cartwright and the man that was struck were both walking in the northbound lane of travel, not along the shoulder, when they were hit.

Wilson said the driver was set to be charged Thursday.