We have an update to an accident we first pushed to our #GHSCanner APP users this Wednesday morning where the Washington State Patrol says that the driver falling asleep at the wheel was the cause. 

The accident occurred at 8:47 am on October 23rd on State Route 12 at mp 28 (near Butler Mill Road) Elma when a black 2003 Volkswagon traveling westbound on State Route 12 went off the roadway to the right after the driver a 49-year-old Montesano woman fell asleep at the wheel.  

No other vehicles were involved, the driver was wearing a seatbelt and was transported to Summit Pacific in Elma for her injuries. 

A 24-year-old Oakville woman died at the scene of a wreck on logging roads in the Capitol State Forest Sunday night, the driver of the vehicle was arrested. The Washington State Patrol reports a 25-year-old Elma man driving a 2013 Ford F250 pickup was also injured and transported to St Peters Hospital with undisclosed injuries.

The truck was Northbound on the Capitol Forest D-Line, about a half-mile north of US Route 12 just after 9 PM Sunday night. The driver failed to negotiate a curve and the truck left the road to the right, went down an embankment, and struck a tree.

The driver was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the wreck. The report said that drugs or alcohol were involved.

Arrest records indicate the driver was booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail this morning on the investigation of vehicular homocide charges.

The road was fully blocked for 7 hours overnight while crews worked to remove the vehicle and occupants.

The National Weather Service out of Seattle investigated a report of a water spout or tornado that touched down near Shelton and are now confirming that their determination is that a tornado with a preliminary rating of EF-1 (winds estimated 90-100 mph) touched down on Friday, October 18th between 6:02 and 6:07 pm.

The Touchdown started on land near Shelton traveling more than a half-mile before moving over Pickering Passage and becoming a waterspout dissipated shortly after moving over the water.

The tornado path was about 90 yards wide and was on the ground for approximately five minutes.

No one was injured but the twister uprooted trees and falling trees damaged at least two homes.

A 70 year old Aberdeen man was transported to the Grays Harbor Community Hospital this afternoon after his mountain bike collided with a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck at the intersection of Simpson Ave. and Jeffries St.  At 1:19 PM

Aberdeen Police/Fire were dispatched to the report as a “child on a bicycle struck by a car”.  When officers arrived on scene, the 70 year old man was still lying on the roadway south of the intersection.  His bicycle nearby had a bent front wheel. 

The 51 year old Aberdeen woman who was driving the pickup explained she never saw the bicycle before the collision.  She reported she had stopped at the southbound stop sign on Jeffries and waited for traffic to clear.  As she crossed Simpson the bicyclist struck the driver’s side of the pickup at the left front wheel, and the rider went to the ground.  The bicyclist had been riding westbound (against traffic) on the south shoulder of Simpson Ave. 

The left lane of Simpson Ave. was blocked until 1:48 PM while AFD prepared the rider for transport.  The collision is still under investigation.