{"id":6318,"date":"2011-05-06T17:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2011-05-06T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T00:07:28","slug":"news-brief-truck-on-interstate-5-strikes-chamber-way-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Truck on Interstate 5 strikes Chamber Way overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Part of a semi-truck&#8217;s too-tall load struck the Chamber Way overpass in Chehalis today, leaving one car damaged from falling chunks of the bridge and leading to a three-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were called about 11:40 a.m. to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at the exit 79 interchange after the boom of an excavator being hauled by a Rochester truck driver hit the overpass&#8217;s &#8220;stringers&#8221;, the Washington State Patrol reported.<\/p>\n<p>A Centralia driver traveling behind the truck escaped injury from the falling debris, but his Chrysler Sebring sustained an estimated $1,000 damage, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 15 minutes later, two cars in the inside lane stopped because of debris on the roadway and a Chevrolet Suburban moved into their lane, rear ending one of them which shoved it into the other one, according to the patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The state patrol reported the Suburban was totaled and its driver, Jeri K. Boone, 48, of Chehalis, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with a sore neck.<\/p>\n<p>A Buick Century involved in the collision was also totaled. A Dodge Intrepid sustained about $750 damage, according to the patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the semi-truck, Jody S. Alger, 42, of Rochester, was to be cited for over height damage, the state patrol reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Part of a semi-truck&#8217;s too-tall load struck the Chamber Way overpass in Chehalis today, leaving one car damaged from falling chunks of the bridge and leading to a three-vehicle collision. Troopers were called about 11:40 a.m. to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at [&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-6318","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\/6318","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=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}