Updated at 11:46 a.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Several people were hospitalized after two separate wrecks on U.S. Highway 12 yesterday afternoon, all reportedly with minor injuries.
Aid and troopers were called just after 5 p.m. to Highway 12 and Williams Street at Mossyrock where a pickup truck pulling a travel trailer and a sedan collided, according to Lewis County Fire District 3.
One lane of the highway was closed for several hours while the truck and trailer were removed from a ditch where they had rolled, Fire Chief Doug Fosburg said.
Its driver was the only person unhurt but four others were taken to the hospital, Fosburg said.
The collision was blamed on a Port Angeles man driving the Dodge Ram who ran a red light.
It and Alta Huber’s 1994 Buick were both totaled, according to the Washington State Patrol. The state patrol reported Huber was uninjured although the fire chief said she was.
At about 1 p.m. near Randle, a van traveling west on Highway 12 hit a ditch, collided with a rock and then rolled once after its driver fell asleep, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Two passengers were uninjured but the driver was taken to Morton General Hospital with a cut hand, according to the state patrol.
The 1992 Toyota Previa van was described as totaled.
The driver, 19-year-old Derek S. Livengood from Portland, was cited for second-degree negligent driving.