POULSBO — A Port Angeles man was treated and discharged after a wreck involving two semitrucks near the Hood Canal bridge earlier this week.
Terry Duane McCallister, 64, was taken by ambulance to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton for complaints of back and neck pain after his 2009 Kenworth T800 tractor was hit in the rear by a 2009 Mack log truck on state Highway 3 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, the State Patrol said.
He was discharged by Wednesday.
The Mack truck driver, a 49-year-old Bremerton man, James Edwin Aaro, was not hurt, the State Patrol said.
The collision forced the closure of one lane of traffic for more than an hour while troopers and state Department of Transportation road crews worked to move the trucks from the road.
The State Patrol gave this account:
The two trucks were both traveling north. McCallister was stopping for traffic at Milepost 59 when Aaro failed to stop and hit McCallister’s truck in the rear.
The Bremerton man could be cited for driving too closely, according to the report.
The Mack truck was towed from the scene of the wreck, while McCallister’s truck was drivable.