RENTON — Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman left King County jail just before 4 p.m. Friday, according to an email from the jail. He’d been held there since 1:20 a.m. Thursday while Bellevue police began its investigation of a two-car crash Wednesday evening that has Coleman facing charges of felony vehicle assault and felony hit-and-run.
Coleman remains suspended indefinitely by the Seahawks because they “don’t know anything,” coach Pete Carroll said.
“First off we haven’t talked to him and seen him at all, and can’t wait for him to get out. Hopefully we can talk to him (Saturday),” Carroll said Friday. “It was a serious accident, and there are some serious issues there. We’re concerned for everybody’s health, and we’ll make sure that’s the first thing that we’ll take a look at.
“Other than that, it’s not really about the game right now. We need to see if Derrick’s OK, see what we can do to support him.”
The King County prosecutor’s office issued a statement Friday saying it expects the Bellevue Police Department’s investigation into the crash to last at least a month while full toxicology reports come back.
Officers responding to the crash Wednesday evening of Coleman’s Dodge Ram pickup truck in Bellevue found a Honda Civic upside down on a retaining wall. The Honda driver was hospitalized with “serious but not life-threatening injuries,” Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett said Thursday.
Mylett said “there was enough evidence there to lead us to suspect that perhaps drugs or alcohol could have been involved” with Coleman’s role in the crash. His truck allegedly struck the Honda from behind “at a high rate of speed” on a 35-mile-per-hour street, Mylett said.
“A decision regarding charges will be made when the investigation is complete,” the King County prosecutor’s office wrote in its statement.
That office will decide whether to charge Coleman.
Wagner questionable
The Seahawks listed All-Pro middle linebacker Bobby Wagner as questionable for Sunday’s game with injured pectoral muscle. Carroll said Wagner’s playing status for the Panthers will be a game-time decision.
Wagner did not practice Wednesday and Thursday but was on the field practicing in a limited role Friday. He got hurt early in the fourth quarter of last weekend’s loss at Cincinnati but missed just two plays and played the remainder of the final period plus overtime.
Usual starting outside linebacker K.J. Wright would move inside to start at middle linebacker if Wagner can’t play. Wright said Wednesday he thinks Wagner will play against the Panthers — that in fact Wagner told him he would.
“He’s tough enough to play with it,” Carroll said. “It’s whether it’s the right thing to do.”
One factor about Wagner playing or not playing Sunday: The Seahawks have to play again four days later, next Thursday at San Francisco.
Lynch practiced fully for the second consecutive day. He hadn’t done that since Sept. 17 and 18. That means undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls goes back to the bench Sunday after two 100-yard games in the last three weeks while Lynch was hurt.
Extra points
Carolina listed star LB Luke Kuechly as probable to play for the first time since the opener a month ago. Doctors cleared Kuechly to practice Tuesday; he missed three games with a concussion. … Carroll said the short, “tricky” week after the Panthers game might affect whether WR Paul Richardson comes off the physically-unable-to-perform list Monday when he becomes eligible to. The coach said the 2014 second-round draft choice who tore his knee ligament in January’s playoff game against Carolina is “100-percent” healthy to return to the field, though.
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