{"id":8648,"date":"2011-09-24T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2011-09-24T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T18:36:51","slug":"woman-dead-after-leaping-from-moving-vehicle-on-i-5-in-centralia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8648","title":{"rendered":"Woman dead after leaping from moving vehicle on I-5 in Centralia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated 11:30 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman in her 20s died after apparently jumping out of a moving vehicle on Interstate 5 in Centralia last night.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers and aid were called about 7:50 p.m. to the southbound lanes south of the Mellen Street interchange, but the female died at the scene from massive head trauma, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Ryan Tanner said the van was traveling in the outside lane and she landed on the shoulder next to the guard rail.<\/p>\n<p>The woman had opened the right front passenger door and jumped out near Salzer Creek at milepost 80, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner said he didn&#8217;t know why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously not cut and dry in this one, it&#8217;s going to take a lot of investigation on our part to try to figure out what happened,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Her hometown and age are not being released. She did not have any identification on her, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still trying to figure out a positive ID on the deceased,&#8221; Tanner said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the big thing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the van is 49-year-old Robert B. Hicks of Chehalis, according to the patrol. There were no other passengers in the van.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner said the two did not know each other, that Hicks was leaving from a location in Centralia heading to Chehalis and she asked for a ride.<\/p>\n<p>No foul play is suspected, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were interviewing Hicks as well as other witnesses that saw her prior to the incident when Tanner was briefed last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 11:30 a.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A woman in her 20s died after apparently jumping out of a moving vehicle on Interstate 5 in Centralia last night. Troopers and aid were called about 7:50 p.m. to the southbound lanes south of the Mellen Street interchange, but the female died [&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-8648","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\/8648","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=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}