SEQUIM — A 69-year-old Port Angeles man was listed in satisfactory condition Saturday at a Seattle hospital after a single-car wreck on U.S. Highway 101 near Sequim Bay Road on Friday morning.
Siegrried Rombs was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the wreck at about 10:35 a.m.
Rombs’ vehicle was traveling eastbound on Highway 101 when it left the roadway and into the eastbound ditch, where it rolled and came to rest upside down, the State Patrol said.
The vehicle, whose make was not identified in the State Patrol memo, was completely destroyed. Neither drugs nor alcohol were involved, the State Patrol said. Rombs was wearing a seat belt.
No other passengers were in the vehicle. No others were hurt, according to emergency personnel.
The highway was blocked for traffic in both directions for about two hours.
