Highway 30 crash with driver lying in roadway

Heard on: St. Helens Police and Fire

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Response to seven two traffic accident, unknown injury, Columbia River Highway.

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Response to 72, traffic accident, unknown injury, US 30, Bennett Road, that is 472 and 471 on task three.

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Response to 72, traffic accident, unknown injury, US 30, Bennett Road, that is 472 and 471 on task three at 3:25.

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712.

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Seven twelve.

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Seven hundred cars ago, check on that crash.

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Is county on? County's on.

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It's going to be OSP.

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I'll go ahead and advise them as well.

01:08

Copy. Put myself on 01:27 on it.

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Copy.

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This morning, and it's my RP is in a red logging truck.

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He is advising that the driver

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possibly is a little intoxicated.

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He was following him, and along the highway, he's now laying on the ground in the middle of the road.

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Seven twelve, looks like both northbound lanes are going to be blocked at this time.

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Both northbound lanes blocked at 300 and twenty-eight.

2026-10-20 10:24 UTC

Traffic

Columbia River Hwy, Clatskanie, OR 97016

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As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatchers received a report of a traffic accident with unknown injuries on US 30 near Bennett Road. A caller in a red logging truck reported that another driver may be intoxicated and was lying on the ground in the middle of the road, with both northbound lanes apparently blocked.