{"id":14758,"date":"2012-10-02T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14758"},"modified":"2012-10-02T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:07:35","slug":"news-brief-man-survives-vehicle-plunge-off-brooklyn-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14758","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Man survives vehicle plunge off Brooklyn Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t clear to responders if the man was out of the vehicle before it landed at the bottom of the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Riverside Fire Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a concern initially if his girlfriend was in the vehicle, he wasn&#8217;t quite sure,&#8221; Grays Harbor\u00a0 County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate said this morning. It turned out she was elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does appear alcohol was a factor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The roadway runs between Garrard Creek Road and the town of Brooklyn in Pacific County.<\/p>\n<p>Grays Harbor County Fire District 1 Chief Buck Graham said the man had walked about three miles to the nearest house to get help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story we finally ended up getting, we think it occurred around midnight,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;We think he got out before it went to the bottom, that he bailed. We&#8217;re not really sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 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&#8217;t clear to responders if the man was out of the vehicle before it landed at the bottom of the canyon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-14758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14761,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions\/14761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}