No brakes results in belly-up

A truck loaded with roofing materials went out of control on the Highway 272 grade into Colfax and crashed onto its top on Main Street just before 3 p.m. Monday. The driver of the truck, Harold Willey, 56, Ritzville, was taken by ambulance to Whitman Hospital and then flown by LifeFlight to Providence Sacred Heart in Spokane, according to Colfax Officer Grant Silver.

The passenger, Justin Sowl, 26, Spokane, sustained minor scrapes and lacerations. He was also taken to the hospital in a second Colfax ambulance.

Silver said the brakes on the truck, a 1973 GMC, failed as the truck descended the g...