Pickup truck rests on its top. / Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Two young men were extricated from a small pickup truck that was nearly split in half from the force of its collision into a tree in Centralia last night.
Firefighters called about 9:20 p.m. to the area off North Gold Street at Ham Hill Road found the truck at the bottom of an embankment on its top. The occupants had been wearing seat belts, according to Riverside Fire Authority.
Crews used hydraulic tools to remove the 18-year-old driver and his 16-year-old passenger, according to authorities.
Fire Capt. Scott Weinert said because of suspected internal injuries, the pair were airlifted to Harborview Medial Center in Seattle.
Centralia police report this morning it appears that speed and inexperience were factors in the collision. The police department describes their injuries as non-life threatening.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
It’s a double apex curve…everyone makes the first one then the second one bites ya. Put in a guard rail BEFORE someone dies Centralia!
that road is deceptive, i almost spun out on that curve one day in 1986
Teens and their lightweight trucks. I remember those days. Throw a few bags of sand over those real wheels and slow down. Speed kills.