[1]A crowd gathers as law enforcement officer investigate a two-vehicle wreck at Summa Street and South Tower Avenue in Centralia. / Courtesy photo by Kelli Taylor
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 16-year-old boy was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital after a two-vehicle collision yesterday evening when an off-duty police officer ran a stop sign in a south Centralia neighborhood.
Police and aid called just before 7 p.m. found Angie Humphrey’s 2004 Acura Sport Utility Vehicle had been westbound on Summa Street and T-boned a southbound Honda-type car with four occupants at South Tower Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Humphrey, 43, works for the Centralia Police Department, but was with her 13-year-old daughter on their way to the fair.
She said the sun blinded her after she crossed the railroad tracks and she took her foot off the accelerator, but “then all the sudden there was the Honda.”
Riverside Fire Authority said they saw five possible patients, four of whom declined to go to the hospital.
Centralia police Sgt. Stacy Denham called it a fairly minor-injury collision, considering the way it happened, and said one youngster had shoulder pain and was transported. His name was not released.
Denham said two individuals from the car left before police arrived. He described the car as totaled.
Humphrey was ticketed for failing to stop at a stop sign and openly admitted it was her fault, Denham said. There were no indications of high speed or gross negligence, he said.
The car’s driver, an 18-year-old from Chehalis, was ticketed for not having a valid license, he said.
Humphrey said she felt horrid.
“I got a ticket just like anybody else would, it was my fault,” she said. “I’m not perfect. It is what it is.”