Personnel with Life Flight Network, Olympic Ambulance and Clallam County Fire District 3 secure a patient for transport Friday morning from a helipad in Sequim. The 69-year-old Port Angeles man was injured in a single car roll-over on U.S. Highway 101. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Personnel with Life Flight Network, Olympic Ambulance and Clallam County Fire District 3 secure a patient for transport Friday morning from a helipad in Sequim. The 69-year-old Port Angeles man was injured in a single car roll-over on U.S. Highway 101. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Port Angeles man airlifted after rollover on 101 near Sequim

SEQUIM — A 69-year-old Port Angeles man was listed in satisfactory condition Saturday at a Seattle hospital after a single-car wreck on U.S. Highway 101 near Sequim Bay Road on Friday morning.

Siegrried Rombs was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the wreck at about 10:35 a.m.

Rombs’ vehicle was traveling eastbound on Highway 101 when it left the roadway and into the eastbound ditch, where it rolled and came to rest upside down, the State Patrol said.

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The vehicle, whose make was not identified in the State Patrol memo, was completely destroyed. Neither drugs nor alcohol were involved, the State Patrol said. Rombs was wearing a seat belt.

No other passengers were in the vehicle. No others were hurt, according to emergency personnel.

The highway was blocked for traffic in both directions for about two hours.

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