{"id":5015,"date":"2011-02-19T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2011-02-19T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:46:32","slug":"troopers-blame-texting-for-fatal-rochester-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"Troopers blame texting for fatal Rochester wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5019\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0218.rochester.fatal_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5019\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5019\" title=\"mazda fatal rochester\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0218.rochester.fatal_2.jpg\" alt=\"2011.0218.rochester.fatal_2\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0218.rochester.fatal_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011.0218.rochester.fatal_2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Mazda 3 is demolished in a fatal head-on crash in Rochester<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old driver was killed when her car crossed the centerline and struck a Freightliner box truck head-on on U.S. Highway 12 in Rochester yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Patrol reported that Ashley R. Davis-Jones, 22, of Tumwater, was eastbound when it happened, at about 5:15 p.m. Th crash occurred near Dallas Street, according to the state Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers found an open cell phone on the floorboard of her car and concluded the young woman had been texting in the moments before the collision, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old Rochester truck driver was reportedly uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was hauling drums of iodine and bleach for use in dairy operations, according to Trooper Guy Gill. Responders from the state Department of Ecology were called to deal with a possible spill or leak.<\/p>\n<p>Davis-Jones&#8217; 2005 Mazda 3 was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed in both directions for hours, with a detour put in place.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Gill appealed to the public to consider the dangers of texting while driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collisions like this are completely preventable, and in a second can change the life of someone you know and love,&#8221; Gill wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 22-year-old driver was killed when her car crossed the centerline and struck a Freightliner box truck head-on on U.S. Highway 12 in Rochester yesterday evening. The Washington State Patrol reported that Ashley R. Davis-Jones, 22, of Tumwater, was eastbound when it happened, at about 5:15 [&hellip;]<\/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-5015","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\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}