{"id":7371,"date":"2011-07-10T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2011-07-10T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:47:17","slug":"news-brief-stp-bicyclist-run-over-by-hay-truck-in-centralia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7371","title":{"rendered":"News brief: STP bicyclist run over by hay truck in Centralia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An STP bicyclist was seriously injured when he was run over by a hay truck in Centralia yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Aid and police were called about 2:20 p.m. to the intersection of North Pearl Street and Reynolds Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound bicyclists and other traffic were stopped at a light and when the light turned green the man&#8217;s bike wobbled and he fell into the path of the truck, Centralia Police Department Sgt. Carl Buster said.<\/p>\n<p>The rear dual wheels of the flatbed truck drove over his upper body, Buster said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thinking his foot got stuck in the pedal or something,&#8221; Buster said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters took him to Providence Centralia Hospital with chest, neck and head injuries, according to Riverside Fire Authority acting Capt. Rick LeBoeuf.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of bicyclists are taking part this weekend in the 200-mile ride, the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, Donald Becker, 58, of Vancouver, Wash. was flown by helicopter to Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, according to Buster.<\/p>\n<p>Police were told this morning he is still in the intensive care unit, with broken shoulders and an injury to his lung, but his head is okay, Buster said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman driving the truck was not ticketed, Buster said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter An STP bicyclist was seriously injured when he was run over by a hay truck in Centralia yesterday. Aid and police were called about 2:20 p.m. to the intersection of North Pearl Street and Reynolds Avenue. Southbound bicyclists and other traffic were stopped at a light [&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-7371","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\/7371","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=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}