Breaking news: One male dead in rural Chehalis crash this morning

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

This was updated at 9:25 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Troopers and Lewis County sheriff’s deputies are “working” a fatality accident on Centralia-Alpha Road this morning.

Aid was called about 7:30 a.m. to a three-vehicle collision near Beck Road north of Onalaska, according to Lewis County Fire District 6 Firefighter Mike Goodwillie.

Two cars were on their tops with extensive damage, Goodwillie said.

One person was deceased, one person was taken by ambulance to Providence Centralia Hospital and two other individuals declined aid, Lewis County Fire District 5 Chief Eric Linn said.

Trooper Steve Schatzel said it was a male who died.

It was extremely icy out, Linn said, the road so slick responders had to walk in the ditch instead of the pavement.

Linn said it was his understanding a motorist stopped to help out a driver who had gone into a ditch and a car coming the other way lost control and hit the parked car.

The male who was killed was outside his vehicle, according to the state patrol.

Schatzel said his early information suggested there were three cars but one was not involved in the collision. More information is expected later this morning, Schatzel said.

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