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MARYSVILLE — A Marysville man is accused of a hit-and-run crash last year that left a teacher in critical care.

The teacher was struck by a Dodge Journey while jogging Dec. 22 along 83rd Avenue NE. She was thrown into a ditch from the impact.

“She sat up and looked up the road and saw the car pull over and stop but no one got out, and it drove off,” public records say.

The teacher, 53, suffered broken bones and organ damage in addition to cuts and bruises, public records show. At the hospital, she had to use a medical device designed to prevent her lungs from collapsing.

For months, Marysville police did not release information about the crash. They wrapped up their reports last week. The case was forwarded to Snohomish County prosecutors as a potential injury hit-and-run, a felony under state law.

The Herald obtained the police reports through a public records request. The newspaper is not naming the accused driver, 25, as he has not been charged. He’s been charged with hit-and-run before, records show.

A Marysville police officer found the vehicle’s passenger side mirror and a windshield wiper blade at the scene. Investigators searched town for any car missing a side mirror. They used the serial number from the recovered mirror to confer with area dealerships and figure out what kind of vehicle it came from. They made a list of all the Dodge Journeys registered in Marysville.

In early February, police received an anonymous phone call giving the name of the Marysville man. The caller had information about the crash that hadn’t been made public, records show.

The man reportedly had ordered a new mirror online and done the repairs himself. After the tip came in police found the Dodge in Marysville and impounded it as potential evidence. The man reportedly told investigators that he’d kept the car in Lake Stevens until he could fix the mirror.

The man’s driver’s license lists an address in Arlington, but reports say he has been living in Marysville, about a third of a mile from the crash scene.