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• * • r r t * * , • • ..* y*- y m*.. 1 • : r':\ :■# * ✓ . j/s * « ^ t .*% /i • • / •• .;• ••• « i *• *. «•■ -• - ., v -;‘ ... ,•■ ■ ■DEBRIS SCENE — Logs were scattered below the Truck Route overpass above Highway 101 Sunday afternoon, after a log load spilled over the bridge onto the empty highway, jamming traffic for an hour. — Daily News photo.Log load spills onto Highway101Tragedy was averted Sunday afternoon when a log truck accidentally dumped a load of logs over the guardrail of the Truck Route overpass and they pounded onto the empty pavement of Highway 101 below.Traffic was jammed for an hour until the logs were cleared off the highway.Driver of the log truck was Robert J. Meneghini, 26, Rt. 4, who was northbound on the Truck Route when the load came off, the state patrol said.There was an estimated $50 damage to his 1968 log truck and trailer and undetermined amount of damage to thehighway and guardrail.In another weekend mishap, two persons were injured Saturday when two cars collided three miles west of Sequim on Highway 101.Injured were Verio H. Richardson, 42, Brinnon, driver of one of the vehicles involved, and Rekio M. Bentz, 19, Sequim, a passenger in the second vehicle driven by Masayuka M. Bentz, 17, who escaped serious injury.The Richardson 1966 pickup incurred an estimated $800 damage while the Bentz 1961 sedan was listed by the state patrol as demolished.
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Port Angeles Daily News of Port Angeles
Port Angeles, Washington, US
Mon, Apr 17, 1972
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Laura N.
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