“It was probably the craziest thing I have ever seen.” “Any time the wind would gust you could see the truck wobble over the side,” said Savannah Debus, a coworker of Myles’ who happened to pass by the wreck as he was escaping. “I’m OK, just feeling a bit older - a few more gray hairs,” he admitted.
The most powerful gust during the weather event was 93 mph recorded at Mount Baker.The severe wind and rainstorm. The truck and load of mail were undamaged, as well. A truck was toppled over on the Deception Pass Bridge in Washington state on November 15, as a powerful cold front brought wind gusts of up to 93 mph to the state’s north.The National Weather Service recorded winds of up to 63 mph in Island County where this incident occurred. “I’m standing on the ladder outside the truck and I’m thinking to myself, ‘I’ve watched too many horror movies - I’m going to jump off this truck and this truck is going to come back and fall on me,’ so I jumped past the truck,” Myles explained. Myles then attempted to exit through the passenger side door, but the 64 mph wind made it too difficult, so he crawled through the passenger door window. “I could look down at the water (out my window), so I wasn’t going to open THAT door,” he said. With his truck leaning over the guardrail, Myles said he wasn’t left with many options for escape. Washington State Patrol says five vehicles crashed and rolled, blocking all lanes of State Route 20. I slammed on my brakes and I just laid over the guard rail. A five-vehicle rollover crash blocked SR 20 at Deception Pass on Sunday. “I just passed the middle of the bridge and a gust of…I don’t know how bad… just picked up my trailer and my truck and just pushed it against the guard rail.
#Accident on deception pass bridge 2021 driver
The incident happened on the Deception Pass Bridge near Anacortes, Wasington on January 13th.Īccording to KOMO News, truck driver Jeff Myles was hauling mail along State Road 20 when the wind picked up and blew him and his rig into a sticky situation. A truck driver narrowly escaped plummeting off a bridge after high winds nearly knocked his semi truck off a bridge in Washington early Wednesday morning.
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