TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A trucker was changing a flat tire Thursday morning on Interstate 5 south of Tacoma when he saw a woman in her underwear crawl over the guardrail from a swamp near the Nisqually River.
The Washington State Patrol says she was wet, hypothermic and covered with scratches from sticker bushes.
Trooper Guy Gill says the trucker drove on the flat tire to take her to a weigh station at DuPont to call for help. The 23-year-old Centralia woman was treated at a hospital and is expected to make full recovery.
While investigators are trying to determine what happened to her, Gill says the truck driver probably saved her life.
