Woman in critical condition after ex violated restraining order and ran her off road

A Pierce County woman was in critical condition Sunday after her ex-boyfriend violated a restraining order and ran her off of a Parkland road at more than 50 mph, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

It was unknown if the 34-year-old woman is going to survive.

The 37-year-old man was initially listed in serious condition. The Sheriff’s Department said about 9:40 p.m. that he’d been released from the hospital and booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree assault, second-degree assault, violation of a no contact order, violation of a protection order, driving with a suspended license, and three counts of reckless endangerment.

The incident started about 9:40 a.m. when the man spotted her driving down the road, threatened to kill her, rammed her Honda and then T-boned her car while driving more than 50 mph, sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

Both vehicles crashed, one into an apartment building.

Troyer said the woman was fleeing to her mother’s home when her car was struck.

Investigators shut down 112th Street South at A Street South at 12:30 p.m. and were unsure when it would reopen.

The woman was granted a restraining order Thursday, claiming that the man — who she described as her estranged husband or ex-husband — had threatened to kill her multiple times, was stalking her and had been violent in recent weeks.

This month alone, he threw her across a parking lot, pinned her against a car by her neck and rear-ended a vehicle because she was in it, court documents say.

He is also believed to have waited outside homes to see if she was with anybody and text messaged threats to her friends and co-workers, according to the restraining order.

“He threatens every couple days to kill himself if I leave him or don’t talk to him,” she wrote.

Her estranged husband is a felon with prior convictions for second-degree assault, harassment, second-degree robbery, second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, forgery and bail jumping.

In the harassment case from 2008, he threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend.

This story was originally published December 30, 2018 at 12:46 PM.