PORT ANGELES — Know someone who’s missing a travel-trailer last seen careening down Cedar Street on Friday morning?
Port Angeles police might want to talk.
“We’re looking to fill in the blanks,” Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said.
A 9-1-1 call came in at 7:41 a.m. Friday reporting a travel-trailer rolling north down South Cedar Street unattached to anything, said Cpl. David Dombrowski with the Police Department.
The employee at nearby Sunset Do it Best Hardware who made the call described the trailer making a sharp right turn about midway down the hill and crashing between two stands of roadside trees into a chain-link fence, Dombrowski said.
The driver of the truck pulling the trailer kept right on going.
“The truck that was hauling [it] didn’t stay around,” Dombrowski said.
“We’re really fortunate the trailer did not go straight on northbound and go into Marine Drive.”
Dombrowski said he found the 28-year-old trailer to be registered to an owner in Burien, though the registration is 20 years old.
It’s likely the Burien owner no longer controls the trailer, Dombrowski said, though it has not been reported stolen.
“That would have come up right away when we ran the [license] plate,” he added.
Dombrowski found identification with an address inside the trailer and was as of Saturday trying to get in contact with the man.
Dombrowski declined to give the man’s name but said he has a minor warrant out for his arrest.
“That gives me reason to believe he may have been involved but did not want to stick around,” Dombrowski said.
“But I don’t know if he was driving or not.”
The person who was driving likely will end up with a ticket for failing to secure a load, Dombrowski added.
The trailer was gone from the side of Cedar Street by about 10:30 Friday morning, Dombrowski said, after a truck from Evergreen Towing in Port Angeles hauled it away.
“They did a great job, and it was much sooner than I expected,” he said.
Anyone with information on the trailer is encouraged to phone the Police Department at 360-452-4545.
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Reporter Jeremy Schwartz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5074, or at jschwartz@peninsuladailynews.com.