News brief: Tenino boy escapes serious injury when U-Haul crashes on the Olympic Peninsula

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A Tenino teenager was hospitalized this morning after a truck in which he was a passenger crashed into a tree in Grays Harbor County.

William L. McBride, 14, was taken to Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen as a precaution after the approximately 9 a.m. collision, according to the Washington State Patrol.

John H. Abrahamson, 65, of Forks, was traveling south along U.S. Highway 101 about three and a half miles north of Amanda Park, near the Jefferson County line, when he fell asleep and drifted to the right into a tree, according to the state patrol.

The 24-foot U-Haul truck was totaled. Abrahamson was hospitalized with a broken arm and a back injury, the patrol reported

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