Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman to be released from jail Friday

Dan Donohoe of the King County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday the investigation will take at least a month, including the time to wait for full toxicology results.

For now he remains suspended indefinitely from the Seahawks, who took that action Thursday morning soon after news broke of Coleman’s arrest on charges of felony vehicular assault and felony hit-and-run for leaving the scene of his crash that sent another auto up an embankment and onto a retaining wall upside down.

Coleman’s Dodge pickup struck a Honda Civic. Coleman did not report being injured.

But Hayne said there is no evidence that Coleman’s actions were criminal, and that police overreacted by arresting him. One of the witnesses told detectives he had helped Coleman out of the vehicle after the crash.

Detectives found the Seahawks player two blocks away standing along SE 37th street, barefoot. Police officers in the Seattlesuburb of Bellevue said they arrested him because he left the scene of the two-car accident Wednesday evening. “All I can say is there was enough to warrant us bringing the DRE (drug recognition expert) out there and do sobriety tests and also to secure a search warrant for his blood”. Mylett said that would be a focus of the investigation.

Mylett said he could not comment about whether Coleman had fallen asleep.

Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman is out of jail, but not out of trouble. The other driver was released Thursday afternoon, a hospital spokesperson said.