{"id":4869,"date":"2011-02-09T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T21:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2011-02-09T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:47:06","slug":"chehalis-bus-versus-house-collision-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"Chehalis bus versus house collision a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2011.0209.bus.v.house\"<\/a>

Sabrina Kostick snapped this photo with her phone this morning of the bus and house at the corner of Southwest 13th Street and Southwest McFadden Avenue in Chehalis.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was updated at 7 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – Police say they don’t know what caused a Twin Transit bus to crash into a Chehalis house this morning.<\/p>\n

No passengers were onboard and nobody was injured, but the bus and the home sustained significant damage, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

However, it was a close call for Mei Liu, who had gotten up very early and gone upstairs to stay up with her colicky grandchild, according to a family friend. Her bed is in the downstairs corner that was struck, he said.<\/p>\n

“Luckily she wasn’t sleeping in her bed, she would have been under all that debris,” Matt Howard said.<\/p>\n

Aid and police called at about 7:30 a.m. to Southwest 13th Street near William Avenue said the bus had been traveling eastward. It plowed through a fence and the yard before striking the split-level home.<\/p>\n

Chehalis Police Department detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said initial indications are it was probably a medical issue with the driver and not anything mechanical with the vehicle.<\/p>\n

“He said he was turning left and the next thing he knows is he was hitting the house,” McNamara said. “Something happened. He can’t explain it and we can’t explain it.”<\/p>\n

Brickwork was knocked off the building and the wall pushed in, a little bit, McNamara said.<\/p>\n

Twin Transit General Manager Ernie Graichen said the driver is a 15-veteran with an “excellent record.”<\/p>\n

The driver was checked out and appeared to be fine, Chehalis Fire Department Capt. Kevin Curfman said.<\/p>\n

However, he was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital to be checked out and for a post-accident drug test, according to Graichen. The driver’s name was not released.<\/p>\n

Forty-four-year-old Hieu Duong said he was brushing his teeth when he felt a jolt.<\/p>\n

“Suddenly the house moved, like somebody put a bomb outside,” he said.<\/p>\n

It scared his children, he said, but the main thing is no one was injured, especially his mother-in-law.<\/p>\n

“She’s lucky,” his wife Liu Li said.<\/p>\n

“She might not (have made) it,” he said.<\/p>\n

The couple, who own the South Pacific Bistro nearby, were expecting a contractor tomorrow to estimate the damage.<\/p>\n

The 15-seat bus was towed to a repair facility.<\/p>\n

Twin Transit will conduct an investigation, Graichen said.<\/p>\n

McNamara said he didn’t know if the driver would be cited.<\/p>\n

\"2011.09.bus.v.house\"<\/a>

Plywood now covers the corner of the Hieu Duong and Liu Li's home in Chehalis.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter This was updated at 7 p.m. CHEHALIS – Police say they don’t know what caused a Twin Transit bus to crash into a Chehalis house this morning. No passengers were onboard and nobody was injured, but the bus and the home sustained significant damage, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}