SEATTLE — Searchers have been unable to find a passenger whose van was found unattended on a Washington state ferry.
A Coast Guard spokesman, Petty Officer Kelly Parker, says a vessel and helicopter searched Puget Sound Tuesday night and this morning after the passenger was reported missing from a Seattle-Bainbridge Island run.
A State Patrol spokesman, Sgt. Trent Cain, says the 45-year-old Bellevue woman bought a ticket for the 10:55 p.m. sailing to Bainbridge, but when it arrived her van was abandoned. Cain says ferry workers found her purse and keys on an upper deck.
Ferry passengers sometimes walk off, forgetting they drove, but it’s unusual to also leave keys.
The patrol is investigating.
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