On the night of March 1st, 2025, Sara Clayson, a female state trooper, turned a routine pizza run into a career-ending nightmare when she collided with a motorcyclist on Village Parkway off SR 240 in Richland, Washington, killing the 20-year-old rider, claiming she mistook the bike for a car with a broken headlight. Her story quickly frayed as hints of corruption emerged. Her evasive demeanor and the faint whiff of alcohol suggesting more than a simple misjudgment. Washington state law, RCW 46.5.2020, mandates that a driver involved in an accident resulting in death must stop at the scene and provide assistance, which Clayson did, performing CPR as a first responder, but her actions couldn't mask the suspicion that this off-duty trooper was hiding a darker truth. What's going on? Um do you want to talk over here real quick? Yeah. Okay. So um I'm Steve and with the traffic unit. So just um I know this is probably uncomfortable, but we're just going to treat this like as if it was anything else and we want to figure out what was going on just you know, just in order to rule anything out. Like obviously you know that it's just as important to rule everything out as it is to confirm everything. So Um I'm just getting here so I know you already answered some questions from the other guys, but generally what happened and Uh so I got the word Dominos Pizza. Okay. I was turning left in here. I live right over there on Wildcat Canyon Way. Okay. I saw what I thought was a car with one headlight out. Okay. Right just past where the reflective sign is that white one. Okay. Sure. And so I was already slowing in the turn lane and saw them there and it was like I got enough time. I turned and as soon as I turned just felt the boom. Okay. Okay. So as you're turning you you thought he was further away. No, he was definitely past that reflective sign when I when I saw him. And then like you say I thought it was a car with the headlight out. I realized it was a motorcycle when you realize the rate of speed Okay. So So did you think he was going pretty quick? Yes, cuz from that reflective sign it's kind of I turn I live here so it's always my like general rule if they're past that sign then you got plenty of time if you're already slowing to turn in. Gotcha. So So you know based on making this turn and numerous times that that you know how to judge that distance and like okay, good to go. Okay. All right. You're probably aware we're just going to like run this like like normal. So I'm just going to run you through some voluntary field sobriety tests if if you're willing to, okay? Yeah, I don't think I want to do any. Okay. All right. What about the PBT? You willing to to do a voluntary PBT? want to do any tests based on my Okay. Understood. What about obviously you just gave me a your verbal statement. Are you willing to write down a a statement on paper? Yeah. Okay. All right. Let me go grab a statement form and I'll let you fill that out and then I know you want to get out of here. So we'll do that that way we just kind of lock everything in for for today. So Sounds good. All right. Yeah, just give me a few minutes. Yeah, no worries. Here is the statement forms. Once I got here you're probably going to need like a clipboard or something. I'm sure. Yeah, you're good. I'll have you stay away from the vehicle just to keep that, but let me let me grab you a clipboard. That's my bad. Okay. Any questions for me at this point? Okay. All right. I'll just be over here so just flag me down once you're done with that. Sounds good. All right. Thank you for completing that for me. I'm just I'm just going to read through it real quick. Um So before before I read it I don't know whether this was ever clarified. You're in the turn lane, you're turning. Did Was there any other traffic coming? Uh so there was a car behind him. I thought it was a car with a headlight out. It was coming this way. Like I said it was right at that white sign. So it's kind of my gauge on when I turn. Mhm. Uh but I was slowing and then I was car there turned and then just literally out of nowhere he just ran inside me. Okay. So you So there was a car in front? No, behind him. Behind him. Okay. Do you know how far? Uh it was Kind of hard to say. I would probably say maybe 50 ft behind him cuz I could see two headlights on that one. One on this one. They were at the white light or the white sign, sorry. Mhm. When I saw that I was like It's a road. I was coming. One's got a headlight out so they probably can't see well so they may be going slow or whatever. But yeah, once I saw their only white sign I was like I got time to turn. Okay. And as soon as I turned it was Okay. Boom right in there. Okay. Okay. This is a almost completed my turn. Okay. Okay. So you're almost finished with your turn. Uh yeah. Yeah, I was kind of seeing where that point of impact was. Sure. I guess in the daylight it's easier to see if they're going faster, but I looked and saw like one light and I was like they're past the white sign. I'm going to turn. But I don't know how fast they were going or what, but it definitely wasn't like I wasn't like I was trying to squeak in at all. Like there was plenty of room. You thought you had plenty of time. Not that you had you had to gun it or anything. No. No, not at all. I was literally I was slowing here and then maybe like 20 mph when I made the turn. Okay. So you slowed down to 20 and then Oh yeah. Yeah, cuz I go left here so it's you got to stop at lights or at the sign. I don't stop, but at least I'm rolling slowing down when you're not going to make my turn. Sure. Well I'll be honest with you. I I would love to rule out impairment, but without the fields it is hard to rule that out. Obviously it's voluntary. I won't I won't ask you again, but there there may always be that question Yeah. down the road. I I just rather not. Okay. Yeah. I know how it goes too. So Yeah. What do you mean you know how it goes? I even if there's like a little if I had some in I had a glass of wine earlier or something like that. I I just don't want don't want to do that. Okay. Yeah. But no, I definitely don't feel impaired. I don't feel like there was impairment as an issue. And I Did you have a glass of wine earlier? I'm not going to answer that. Okay. You you you just mentioned like if If I if I would have yeah or had yeah. But So his bike kind of got pushed in front of your car, but he was Was he still in the roadway? Is that kind of what happened? Yeah, so he was right about where I was right at. I'd probably say in there. He was maybe just a little bit to the north of him. Okay. To the north of him. Just like a body size or something like that. And then I got him in the Uh there was few people that stopped. I think the car that was behind him had stopped and started CPR and over seeing one of them finding gloves or something. I was like Okay. And um You got Obviously you were the only one in the car. Yeah. Okay. And you have people at home or you just Yeah. Yeah. Okay. My husband's out. Okay. I just want to go home. Okay. Um I'm just going to basically we're just kind of in a holding pattern right now. So I'll talk to my partners over there and we'll we'll kind of figure out how we're going to what's next. Yeah, just give me a couple minutes. When traffic unit investigator Mo Steve arrived, Sara Clayson's refusal to take voluntary field sobriety tests or a breathalyzer screamed guilt. Her glassy eyes and cryptic I know how this goes hinting at a corrupt cop desperate to dodge accountability. RCW 46.615.02 states a person is guilty of driving under the influence if they drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher and her reluctance forced investigators to secure a blood draw warrant to uncover what she wouldn't admit. This wasn't just a trooper in over her head. It was a calculated move by someone who thought her badge could bury her sins only to see it backfire as suspicion tightened its grip. No. I think she has something on board. Do you really? Yeah. It's we have to. Is there going to be enough to get a search warrant? So yeah, I'll write it. Which I mean unless you want What what changed? So I was just studying her. She got a couple misspelled words on here. She wrote si sign. She She She said 100 ft. She Sorry. I'm going a little fast. She She estimated the the distance between the guy on the motorcycle and her to be 100 ft, which that's way more than 100. That's like this 500 ft. Um she said she was almost through her turn when clearly she was at the very beginning of her turn. Her eyes are a little bit glassy, a little bit. But could be could be, but we got to err on the side of caution. I do not have a great sense of smell, but I think I smelled a little bit of odor of alcohol. Enough for me to say. And then I I told her I'm like, "Hey, we just want to rule out impairment." And by you not doing it I'm like I'm not going to ask you again, but I'm like we can't rule it out. And she said, "Yeah, well if I would have had a glass of wine earlier I know how this goes." And then I said "Didn't you have a glass of wine earlier?" And she said, "I'm not going to repeat that." So Okay. I think with everything Um Yeah, we have to. I mean I will write the search warrant. Um Oh. Okay. Um but yeah, I'm still recording. I'm still recording. I I would have loved to have ruled it out. I will mute. Yes. All right. So, like I said, we're really trying to rule alcohol out. I I'm not convinced that alcohol wasn't a factor. So, right now you are under arrest, okay? Okay. So, go ahead and put your hands behind your back. So, we will be um doing a uh search warrant for blood, okay? That way there will be no questions. Do you have anything in your pockets or anything? Uh yeah, nothing illegal in this person. Okay. Go ahead and piss in the car for me. I can give you a breath test if you want me to. I can Well, at this point I think we'll just probably do the search warrant. Okay. Um I mean, if you want to do the breath test. Just want to know what Yeah. But yeah, please don't do the breath test. Well, I this this So, we're trying to treat this like any other incident and typically once the opportunity kind of comes and that you you know, you said you don't want to do it as voluntary and then if you want to do it um Well, I I did a voluntary breath test if that makes sense. But I just didn't want to do the fields. Okay. So, you wanted to submit to I think with this the the significance of this, I think it's probably we're going to probably get a search warrant, okay? That's fine. All right. I appreciate your cooperation. No worries, of course. Okay. All right. I don't know what this is. Okay. Here. So, let's you just have a seat right here because I'll give you the one we'll utilize the one um on the wall. But that's probably But I'll just give you my body camera. Just So, normal procedure. Okay. No worries. Just checking in. Do you need any water or anything? Uh no, I don't need to use the restroom before we leave. Okay. I got a female officer. We can uh on a scale of 1 to 10 now, uh one being not right now, 10 being Like a five. Okay. All right. I can have a female officer come in. Okay. All right. How you doing? Can you get my bag, please? Um all right. So, they um did get a warrant for the blood. So, we're going to do that now. Okay. Okay. Um yeah, your charge is uh vehicular homicide. Hey, things are coming. So, yeah, I got the warrant um and then we said just a jail clearance cuz she was in a car. All right. So, yeah, we're just here doing the um blood draw and then the jail clearance just cuz you were in the crash. Okay. Is that okay? So, yeah, we're just here for a clearance and then a blood draw. We'll do a blood draw. Do you know if anybody from the lab came in yet? I called this morning. You guys locked the door. Okay. Just want to make sure. Got you. Okay. Just want to make sure. Okay. Clearly busy. Yeah, that's okay. Just want to make sure they're they're aware. I can't imagine there's that many other people getting their blood drawn right now. It it was before age 7:40. Long time ago. I I don't want to wait. Yeah, if you could. Like we've been waiting for a while and this is like a this is a fatality crash. Oh yeah. No, I was going to say I called Yeah. I called. He's called. Okay. No, it doesn't take this long. It's probably what Yeah, I don't know. Like yeah. Appreciate it. So, nobody showed up for your device? Nope, we're waiting. Do you have the wipes? I do. Do you have the chips? I do. Do you want me to do it now? Well, I'll just make sure the white powder is there. Is there anything else that you wanted on there? I put the case number, her name, date of birth, my initials, the time. That looks good to me. So, I was instructed to to take your phone as well. So, that'll be in our custody. I'm not sure if they will be writing a search warrant on that. So, just wanted to let you know that that's will be your property. Did Were any of the Cuz like I said, when I was doing the CPR, there was several other witnesses around after the conclusion. Did any of those guys stick around here? Uh I don't know. Statements? I don't know. I I believe so. Um somebody made mention of a video that came out or something shortly thereafter. I don't know. I got called to to the scene after After the CPR? After Yeah Yeah, as as a traffic investigator, yeah. So, so yeah, I was a while before I got there. So, a lot of those loose ends, I think that the other traffic investigators kind of wrapped up and I I'm just not privy to those just cuz I wasn't there at the time. Hey, how you doing? So, she was involved with a motor vehicle crash? Right. Um so, but she was cleared at the jail. She also is a trooper. So, whatever accommodations you guys can make for that. By night's end, Sarah Clayson's wrists were in cuffs, charged with vehicular homicide under suspicion of DUI after killing 20-year-old Geozer Sanchez. Her arrest stripping away the veneer of a corrupt trooper who'd gambled her career on one reckless turn. RCW 46.61520 defines vehicular homicide as causing the death of another by operating a vehicle recklessly or under the influence. A charge pinned on her despite her weak claim of misjudging the motorcycle speed. Processed with a blood draw and jail clearance, her status as a Washington State Patrol Trooper offered no protection. Skagit County's special prosecutor took over due to the conflict of interest, exposing her to the same justice she'd once enforced. Released on her own recognizance after a 72-hour hold on March 3rd, Clayson hasn't faced formal charges as of April 4th, 2025 with the investigation still active. The blood results, potentially damning evidence of her intoxication, remain under wraps while witness videos could further unravel her story. Was she always rotten, using her badge to bend the rules, or did one night of arrogance torch her career? Share your take below. Can Sarah Clayson outrun this, or is her corrupt legacy sealed? Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video click to watch now.