A rock in the road in the middle of the night

 

Last updated 10/10/2018 at 9:40am

This is what happens to a Ford Focus when it hits a large rock in the road.

A boulder fell onto the highway along Banks Lake sometime in the early hours of the morning Tuesday, blocking the 60 mph northbound lane.

Unfortunately, Shaian Gomez found it in her Ford Focus.

The boulder after being moved from the highway. - Scott Hunter photos

Gomez, 23, was northbound on SR-155 just before 5:21 a.m. when the Washington State Patrol got a call. Her 2002 Focus hit the rock, which state Dept. of Transportation Maintenance Supervisor Ryan Smith estimated could weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

Smith said the rock was about 4 feet across.

The big hunk of granite had fallen, as often happens, after a long rain that followed a long dry spell. It lay on the highway in a spot directly across from Steamboat Rock where the highway cuts through a large section of rock, at milepost 17.5.

A WSP trooper on site about two hours later reported that Gomez had been walking around the scene when he arrived, and that she appeared to be OK. She was taken to Coulee Medical Center to be checked out just in case.

Smith said the Electric City DOT office was called out after a Grant County Sheriff's deputy confirmed the rock was blocking the road.

It was moved off the roadway with a DOT snowplow truck.

 

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