By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 22-year-old motorist who reportedly fell asleep before his car crossed the center line on U.S. Highway 12 northwest of Oakville is being blamed for a wreck that totaled a log truck driven by a Chehalis resident this morning.
Both drivers escaped unhurt, as did the driver of a flatbed truck that was also involved, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Troopers were called just before 6 a.m. to the scene three miles south of Elma.
The oncoming 2007 Kenworth log truck was hit in the front tire by the 1998 Acura Integra, causing the log truck to go off the road and spill its load of logs onto the highway, according to the state patrol. Dean R. Lennox, 46, of Chehalis, was reportedly uninjured.
The other two vehicles were described as totaled also.
Two passengers in the Integra, from Abderdeen, were taken by ambulance to Capitol Medical Center in Olympia, one with a broken leg and the other with a head injury, the patrol reported.
Kristopher M. Hyatt, 22, of Abderdeen, reportedly fell asleep and after his car struck the log truck tire, the car spun out and was hit by an oncoming 2008 Dodge flatbed work truck, the state patrol reported.
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