A Ford pickup rolled through a pedestrian fence along Byham Road and came to rest in Wallers Creek.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
WINLOCK – If a truck falls in the trees and no one sees it, does it make a sound?
Yes it does.
“We all heard a crash and didn’t know what it was, so we went back to what we were doing,” Winlock resident Jennifer Brown said.
On the other side of Byham Road and beyond Wallers Creek, Bonnie Givens heard a noise she described as a boom and wondered if something hit her shed.
Moments later, a firefighter and deputy were knocking on her door, asking if they could cut through her backyard to look in the creek.
It was about 2:40 p.m. and responders found a red Ford F250 on its top, in the water, below an approximately 30 foot eroded bank, according to Winlock Police Department Chief Terry Williams. It was unoccupied.
“They said no one was in it, I felt so good finding that out,” Givens said.
At about the same time, Brown’s neighbor came to tell her that her truck had left her driveway, crossed Byham Road, plowed through a chain link fence and fallen.
It happened about 100 yards west of the Tennessee Road Bridge at the very northeast corner of town.
Williams said once a tow truck is able to recover the vehicle, he will be able to figure out if it slipped out of park, or what happened.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Hand prints in the tail gate?
So it does make noise if no one is around to hear it 🙂 Glad no one was hurt.
Wow big news.