{"id":5155,"date":"2011-02-26T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2011-02-26T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:07:03","slug":"news-brief-man-crawls-away-from-overnight-wreck-in-ravine-near-mossyrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Man crawls away from overnight wreck in ravine near Mossyrock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA 22-year-old Silver Creek man survived an overnight crash in which his pickup truck traveled down an embankment striking several trees and came to rest in a creek bed, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel R. McKechnie crawled out of the vehicle and walked to a friend&#8217;s house to get help, responders said.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis County Fire District 3 Chief Matt Hadaller estimated the truck landed about 50 yards off state Route 122.<\/p>\n<p>McKechnie was taken to Morton General Hospital with cuts to his hands and head, the state patrol reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, he was a lucky guy,&#8221; Hadaller said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were called about 2:35 a.m. to the scene west of Mossyrock near Lake Road.<\/p>\n<p>The 1995 Ford pickup was described as totaled. Hadaller said he didn&#8217;t notice any water in the creek, calling it a ravine where the vehicle landed.<\/p>\n<p>The investigating trooper blamed driving too fast on a curve and indicated McKechnie was to be cited for driving under the influence. He wasn&#8217;t wearing a seatbelt and said he was ejected from the truck, according to responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 22-year-old Silver Creek man survived an overnight crash in which his pickup truck traveled down an embankment striking several trees and came to rest in a creek bed, according to the Washington State Patrol. Daniel R. McKechnie crawled out of the vehicle and walked to [&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-5155","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\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}