UPDATE: Driver in Crash on Juanita Drive Arrested for DUI, Vehicular Assault

UPDATE, April 4, noon: A woman at the wheel of a car that drifted over the center line while southbound on Juanita Drive Thursday night, hitting head-on a small oncoming truck, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular assault, say Kirkland police.

The occupants of the vehicle that was hit were a father and his 15-year-old daughter. The daughter was driving with a learner’s permit, said Kirkland Police Department spokesman Lt. Mike Murray.

The father suffered broken fingers and a possible broken foot.

All three involved were taken to the EvergreenHealth Medical Center, but none of their injuries were life-threatening. The woman driving the vehicle that drifted over the center line was subject to a blood draw to test her blood alcohol level.

Ages and hometowns were not immediately available.

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Original story:

Three people were injured Thursday night when two vehicles collided head-on in the 12800 block of Juanita Drive, closing the major arterial for a short time.

All three involved were taken to EvergreenHeath Medical Center in Kirkland with injuries that were not life-threatening, said Battalion Chief Joe Sanford of the Kirkland Fire Department.

He added that Kirkland police were investigating the crash as a possible case of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

A woman in one of the vehicles veered across the center line and hit an oncoming vehicles with a man and his daughter.

“Fortunately, all three injuries were fairly minor,” said Sanford.

The crash occurred at about 9:30 p.m.

Juanita Drive is a wooded, winding arterial between the Juanita Bay area north to Kenmore, and is known as one of the more accident-prone roads in Kirkland. A bicyclist was hit and killed by a motorist on Juanita Drive in the summer of 2011, and last August, a head-on crash killed a Finn Hill woman and resulted in vehicular homicide charges against another driver.