Gardiner: Port Angeles man recounts rescue of crash victim
Published 12:01 am Friday, August 30, 2002
SEQUIM — Joe Tomita of Port Angeles is reluctant to talk about his role in pulling a Sequim man from a burning vehicle Tuesday afternoon near Gardiner.
The actions of Tomita, his wife Peggy, and several other people are being heralded as those that saved the life of 66-year-old Peter A. Chadwick.
Chadwick suffered burns as well as facial, abdominal and leg injuries in a fiery head-on crash along U.S. Highway 101.
Chadwick was in critical condition Thursday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, a nursing supervisor reported.
According to a Washington State Patrol report, 67-year-old Patricia Britz of Vashon Island was killed when her car veered across the centerline and struck Chadwick’s pickup truck head-on.
Tomita said Thursday it’s not fair to single him out as a hero because many people came to Chadwick’s aid at the crash scene.
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