A Bellevue teenager has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a high speed crash, possibly involving alcohol, in the Enetai neighborhood on Dec. 5, police report.

At approximately 12:06 a.m. on Dec. 5, three Bellevue Police Officers were on an unrelated call at the Enatai Beach Park in Bellevue when they observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound in the 10700 block of 106th Avenue Southeast. The Officers observed the vehicle, a 2008 Chrysler Sebring, leave the roadway and crash into a retaining wall at the intersection with 108th Avenue Southeast.

Officers immediately attempted to assist the occupants of the vehicle. The front passenger of the vehicle — a male 16-year-old Bellevue resident identified as Aidan Duncan— was found unconscious in the vehicle and was transported by paramedics to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries.

Duncan was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt at the time.

It was initially reported that he was in a coma, shortly after the accident, but the teen’s father, Matthew Duncan, told investigators that his son has woken up and become more responsive.

In postings on the popular health-related site for journaling, Caring Bridge, Duncan’s parents detail their son’s recovery thus far and a potential move out of the Intensive Care Unit.

“We have been told is that this journey will be a marathon and not a sprint,” Matthew Duncan wrote on the website.

The driver of the vehicle, a male 16 year-old Bellevue resident, was not injured, and was arrested by Bellevue Police for investigation of felony vehicular assault. The driver was transported to Overlake Hospital by Bellevue Police after a search warrant for a sample of the driver’s blood was obtained.

Alcohol is believed to be a factor in this crash.

A rear seat passenger — also a 16-year-old male and a Bellevue resident — ran away from the scene. He was located at a residence nearly two hours after the crash, and was interviewed and released.