The deadly roads of Mason County

Around 8 p.m. Sunday night, Washington State Patrol and Mason County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fatal accident between a car and man sitting in the road on state Route 3 near Deer Creek north of Shelton. A news memo from State Patrol says the driver was not impaired and that the man in the road is the cause of the crash.

About 10 miles south and 30 minutes earlier, State Patrol and MSCO went to a motorcycle accident on U.S. Highway 101 near its intersection with Old Olympic Highway South by Oyster Bay. The motorcycle, according to State Patrol’s release, struck the center cable barrier, w...