Police report: Derrick Coleman admitted to smoking ‘spice' before hit-and-run crash

Bellevue Police Department will send Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman's hit-and-run case to prosecutors and recommend charges be filed.

Coleman admitted that he smoked "spice," also known as synthetic marijuana, about an hour before a two car crash in October , according to the police report released Monday afternoon.

Key developments from police report:  

• Coleman's vehicle was traveling 60 MPH in a 35 MPH zone
• Travel cameras capture Coleman driving outside his lane of travel
• He admitted to smoking "spice"
• Police report calls Coleman's actions rash
• Read the probable cause documentation here 

After the Oct. 14 crash in the 13600 block of Southeast 36th Street, witnesses approached Coleman while he was still in the driver’s seat. One witness said he was “delirious and aggravated,” the probable cause document said.

Bellevue Fire Department reported a passenger in a pickup truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after the vehicle flipped on its side.

>>  PHOTOS: Scene of Derrick Coleman's alleged hit-and-run 

Coleman's blood wasn't drawn for several hours after the collision – and tests didn't show any of the drugs he admitted to consuming were in his system.

He had just left a team meeting, according to attorneys. 

Coleman's agent tweeted last fall that the player may have fallen asleep behind the wheel on the way home from the Seahawks facility in Renton.

His attorney vehemently denied Coleman was on any substances during the crash.

“I can tell you he had a head injury,” Coleman’s attorney, Stephen Hayne, said following the crash, explaining why Coleman left the scene. “He’s deaf, that’s well known, and he lost his hearing aids in the impact. I can tell you it was extremely shocking and confusing.”

Coleman was arrested in October and released.

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