Bellevue Police say that Seahawks fullback Derek Coleman admitted in a sworn statement to smoking "spice," or a synthetic drug marketed as similar to marijuana, about an hour prior to a crash on October 15th that injured another driver. Coleman's truck rammed into the back of a Honda and pushed it about 260 feet before it flipped. The driver of the other car suffered a broken clavicle and a head injury.
The BPD has recommended that Coleman be charged with felony vehicular assault and hit-and-run in the crash because of "rash and heedless" driving. It claims Coleman was "indifferent to the consequences and that he was impaired by the drug he had smoked.