MOSSYROCK DRIVER HURT BY FLYING WHEEL ASSEMBLY
• A 21-year-old woman from Mossyrock was hospitalized after a dual tire wheel assembly broke off from a log truck and struck her car’s windshield and roof on Interstate 5 near Woodland this morning, according to the Washington State Patrol. Troopers were called to the northbound lanes near milepost 20 just after 7 o’clock today. Kayla A. Roque Villatoro was transported to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver with possible upper body and facial lacerations, the state patrol reported. Her Honda Accord sustained an estimated $5,000 damage. It happened in a construction zone. A Jeep Cherokee that ran over part of the assembly became disabled, according to the state patrol. The 42-year-old truck driver from Corbett, Ore. was cited for a defective wheel.
THEFT
• Centralia police were called yesterday to a business on the 1200 block of Mellen Street to take a report somebody went in overnight and took “items”. Further details were not available.
• An unlocked car with its keys left inside was stolen from the 400 block of Tucker Road in Toledo sometime between 8 p.m. on Monday and 5 o’clock yesterday morning, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The 1996 four-door Dodge Neon is valued at $1,000 and belonged to the wife of a Napavine man who reported it was taken from his workplace, the sheriff’s office said today. It has a license plate reading VAE 623.
• A pair of newlyweds returning home from their honeymoon discovered on a ring they had hidden in a closet missing from their home on the 100 block of Brockway Road in Chehalis, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. It was reported yesterday. The loss is $2,500 and the sheriff’s office has s suspect in mind, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said today.
• A deputy took a report yesterday of a John Deere riding lawn mower stolen from the 200 block of Macomber Road in Chehalis. It disappeared sometime on Friday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police took a report yesterday of a welder stolen from a garage on the 1900 block of Foxglove Lane. It went missing sometime during the previous week, according to the Centralia Police Department.
PICKUP RAMS LOG TRUCK
• The state patrol blames inattention for a wreck last evening on Interstate 5 in Chehalis in which a pickup truck struck a log truck that was on the shoulder. Trooper were called just before 5 p.m. to the southbound lanes near the Chamber of Commerce Way interchange. Mark R. Schley, 40, of Wenatchee, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with injuries to his head, neck and abdomen, according to the state patrol. His 1995 Chevrolet pickup was described as totaled. The tractor and its trailer, driven by Patrick Eberle of Salkum, sustained an estimated $10,000 damage, the state patrol said. Drugs or alcohol were believed to be involved, according to the patrol.