Semi-truck slides off Highway 20, driver OK

The driver of a semi-truck is OK after his rig left State Highway 20 at Dugualla Bay Farms Thursday morning.

The driver of a semi-truck is OK after his rig left State Highway 20 at Dugualla Bay Farms Thursday morning.

The driver left the road near the farm stand and kept the truck from barreling into the building and the fields. He skidded to a halt in a grassy area next to the road, the two trailers twisted like a gigantic broken toy.

The driver was hauling two trailers filled with cans of paint for Peninsula Truck Lines, a commercial trucking company that delivers goods all over the Northwest.

“He doesn’t know how he got off the road,” said Mark Kirko, deputy fire chief for North Whidbey Fire and Rescue.

High winds were blasting through the flats at the time, but Washington State Patrol investigators determined the cause of the crash was driver inattention, said Trooper David Martin.

The driver was cited for second-degree negligent driving.