PORT ANGELES — A distracted driver who plowed through a fence above Valley Creek on Wednesday was “very lucky” that he and others escaped injury, a Port Angeles police officer said.
Troy Orsen Tucker was traveling westbound on West Eighth Street when the Chrysler Sebring he was driving crossed the centerline, smashed through a wooden fence and came to rest on an embankment near the eastern Eighth Street bridge, Officer Whitney Fairbanks said.
The wreck occurred at about 9:10 a.m. on the southeast corner of the bridge span. There were no other occupants inside the vehicle.
Drugs or alcohol were not suspected causes of the crash.
“Something seemed to distract him,” Fairbanks said.
Tucker, 50, of Sequim was booked into the Clallam County jail for investigation of driving with a suspended license and driving without a required interlock device.
He was also ticketed for second-degree negligent driving and driving without proof of insurance, Fairbanks said.
The car traveled about 20 feet down the embankment before it became stuck in the dirt.
“He was very lucky,” Fairbanks said.
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