US-101 at the Bone River Bridge (just north bone river - 8 miles south of South Bend) in Pacific County was closed for 3 hours and 15 minutes for a fatality accident investigation Wednesday, July 24th.  

According to the Washinton State Patrol, the collision occurred at 2:56 pm as a 44-year-old South Bend man was driving a black 1992 Yamaha xj600 motorcycle southbound on sr101 near bone river at a high rate of speed. The motorcycle left the road to the right and struck a guardrail.

Family of the deceased were notified by a chaplain and WSP Seargent. 

The report states that the cause is under investigation at this time.  

An Update to an alert Grays Harbor Scanner Posted on On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 10:30 PM.  Police Chief Myers says that "Aberdeen Officer Berken shed much of his police gear in order to swim out to the woman. Officer Berken spoke with her calmly and explained to her how he would be physically swimming with her back to the shore".

Here is the full Press Release from Chief Myers.

The suspect arrested by Hoquiam Police Detectives for child rape is a 60-year old that has education as a child psychologist and appears he was last employed by a medical provider as a contracted speech-language pathologist/ child psychologist within a school district in King County.