BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A Bellingham man faces a vehicular homicide charge for hitting and killing a man on the sidewalk along Lakeway Drive early Saturday.
Police say 36-year-old Jacob M. Saville was intoxicated when he drove his pick-up truck off the road in the 1600 block of Lakeway at about 12:30 a.m.
He hit a 40-year-old man on the sidewalk and knocked down a light pole.
Bellingham EMTs pronounced the victim dead at the scene.
The man’s identity hasn’t been released.
Saville was briefly hospitalized before being taken to jail.
Lakeway was closed between Woburn and Puget Streets until Saturday afternoon while police investigated and crews repaired the light pole.