A pair of tow trucks assist with a tractor-trailor involved in a wreck on U.S. Highway 101 near Laird Road west of Port Angeles on Wednesday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

A pair of tow trucks assist with a tractor-trailor involved in a wreck on U.S. Highway 101 near Laird Road west of Port Angeles on Wednesday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

UPDATE — Tractor-trailer veers to miss pickup and ends in ditch on Highway 101 west of Port Angeles; earlier report of collision incorrect

PORT ANGELES — A tractor-trailer veered to miss a pickup truck and ended in a ditch on U.S. Highway 101 at Laird Road this morning.

No one was hurt in the 11:12 a.m. wreck, the State Patrol said. Contrary to earlier reports, there was no collision.

A fuel spill was cleaned up by emergency responders at the scene, said Trooper Russ Winger, spokesman for the State Patrol.

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Cleanup and removal of the vehicles was complete at about 1:15 p.m., Winger said.

The driver of the pickup, Reece C. Lausche of Port Angeles, was cited for negligent driving, he said.

Lausche, no age available, driving a Ford F-350 pickup truck on Laird Road approaching the Highway 101 intersection, failed to stop at a stop sign and instead halted in the westbound lane of Highway 101, the State Patrol said.

Roger Hopie, no age available, of Port Angeles was traveling westbound on Highway 101 in a 1991 Kenworth tractor-trailer nd veered to the left to avoid the pickup.

The Kenworth crossed into the eastbound lane and went into the roadside ditch while the attached trailer blocked the eastbound lane, the State Patrol said.

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