By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 41-year-old Chehalis man was uninjured after he drove his car off an 800-foot embankment overnight off Brooklyn Road several miles west of Oakville.
It wasn’t clear to responders if the man was out of the vehicle before it landed at the bottom of the canyon.
Aid and deputies were called about 5:40 a.m. to the scene, on the 400 block of Brooklyn Road, including firefighters from Oakville and Centralia’s Riverside Fire Authority.
“There was a concern initially if his girlfriend was in the vehicle, he wasn’t quite sure,” Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Department Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate said this morning. It turned out she was elsewhere.
“It does appear alcohol was a factor,” he said.
The roadway runs between Garrard Creek Road and the town of Brooklyn in Pacific County.
Grays Harbor County Fire District 1 Chief Buck Graham said the man had walked about three miles to the nearest house to get help.
“The story we finally ended up getting, we think it occurred around midnight,” Graham said. “We think he got out before it went to the bottom, that he bailed. We’re not really sure.”
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