Port Angeles log truck driver loses load on state Highway 12
Published 12:01 am Wednesday, November 25, 2015
MONTESANO — A log truck driven by a Port Angeles truck driver dropped its load on state Highway 12 in Montesano.
No one was injured when the logs let loose from their trailer at about at 2:04 p.m. Monday.
The State Patrol report said Kristopher K. Matthews, 52, of Port Angeles, was driving a 1986 Peterbuilt log truck with a loaded trailer southbound on Devonshire approaching eastbound state Highway 12.
Matthews attempted to use an onramp to enter the highway eastbound, and the trailer carrying logs tipped over.
The logs, which did not come loose from their bindings, fell out of the trailer and slid several hundred feet to the left eastbound lane of the four-lane divided highway, said Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman.
The onramp was closed for several hours while the trailer was righted and the logs removed from the road, Winger said.
Neither drugs nor alcohol were thought to be involved in the incident, according to the report.
Matthews was cited for speed too fast for conditions, the report said.
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