Updated at 7:26 p.m.
DEER CROSSING
• A 36-year-old man from Napavine wrecked his car when he swerved to miss a deer, struck a concrete bridge rail, and spun off the roadway into a barbed wire fence yesterday morning west of Chehalis. A deputy responding to the approximately 11:30 a.m. incident on the 200 block of Twin Oaks Road found the driver was uninjured but his 2003 Buick Century sustained major damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called about 10:45 .m. yesterday regarding the theft of a license plate from the 700 block of East Main Street.
CAR PROWL
• An officer was called about 7:10 a.m. today about a vehicle prowl on Northeast Adams Avenue in Chehalis in which a window was broken out.
• Someone broke a window out of a vehicle on Southwest Third Street in Chehalis, according to a report made to police about 7:20 a.m. today.
• Chehalis police were called about 12:30 p.m. yesterday regarding a vehicle prowl on West Main Street.
VANDALISM
• Police were called about 8:10 p.m. yesterday to the 100 block of South Tower Avenue in Centralia where someone had damaged the back door on a business.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, shoplifting, misdemeanor assault; responses for alarms, protection order violation, suspicious circumstances, misdemeanor theft, collision on city street, collision on county road … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Don’t ever swerve to miss an animal on the road, whether it’s a dog, deer, or whatever.
Anyone who “swerves to miss a deer” and causes a wreck needs to be arrested and their license taken away.
Hit the breaks, dump as much speed as possible and hit the damn thing! Don’t risk a human life over roadkill!
I sure hope the driver was drunk, and not just that stupid!
Many years ago, when I worked for WSP, that same damned deer ranged throughout Thurston and Mason counties, causing numerous accidents. Readers should also beware, there’s a dog out there doing the same thing.