OLYMPIA, Wash. — Editor's note: This story was updated Aug. 16 with information about the suspect's arrest.
Detectives said the the driver of a boat who ran over a kayak last week in Puget Sound has been arrested.
The driver faces a felony charge of boating hit-and-run and is expected to appear in court on Monday.
Phillip Hill and his son, Anthony, were riding from Carlyon Beach to Hope Island on Aug. 3 when they noticed a boat speeding at them.
Anthony Hill said he and his dad tried waving their paddles and yelling at the driver before bailing out of their kayak moments before impact.
“I hit the water and said, ‘There’s no way that just happened,’ then I turned and I was screaming,” said Anthony Hill, who was trying to find his father.
He feared his father had been hit.
“I was yelling for him five or six times before he surfaced,” Anthony Hill said. “Those were the longest couple of seconds of my life.”
Both men escaped injury.
Phillip Hill said looking at the kayak, he thinks the boat’s propeller hit right behind the seat had been in. He said they were lucky they survived without being hurt.
"I still don't know how but we'll take it," Phillip Hill said.
Philip Hill said he's glad detectives tracked down the driver.
”You want to find them," Phillip Hill said. "You’d like to ask them, ' What the hell they were doing?'"
A spokesperson for the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said eyewitnesses, including the Hills, helped detectives identify the responsible boater.