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Two Oregon State University students were killed in a traffic crash Sunday morning on Highway 20 near Eddyville.
According to Oregon State Police, 21-year-old Abigail Patricia Emerson of Roseburg was heading eastbound on Highway 20 in a 2000 Chrevolet Impala. Around 11 a.m., the car was driving through a sharp right curve when it began to fishtail.
Emerson lost control of the vehicle and it nearly hit another car before it went off the eastbound shoulder and rolled 40 feet down an embankment. The car landed on its top in the Yaquina River and was submerged in the river.
An elderly driver from Colorado was killed and two Hillsboro residents in an SUV were injured in a two-vehicle crash that blocked U.S. Highway 20 near Santiam Pass, west of Sisters for over an hour Monday morning, Oregon State Police reported.
Troopers late Monday identified the woman killed in the crash as 86-year-old Deana May Igoe of Grand Junction, Colorado.
Preliminary information indicated that around 9:15 a.m., a 2008 Ford Fusion driven by Igoe was heading east on Highway 20 near milepost 82 when she lost control on the ice, troopers said.
Sheriff's deputies arrested a man for drunk driving following a crash that killed a pedestrian in Dubuque County early Sunday morning.
The crash happened just before 3 a.m. near Farley. Law officers say 24-year-old Alex Hannan was merging onto Highway 20 when he hit the pedestrian later identified as Dawson Besler, 21, a student at the University of Northern Iowa.. Hannan is in the Dubuque County Jail for Operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Traffic was backed up for more than three hours as crews investigated the crash.
Charges are pending for suspected intoxicated driver who crashed into a Washington State Patrol vehicle, seriously injuring her passenger. According to a State Patrol memo, 44-year-old Joanna Kasner of Arlington was driving with her brother, Timothy, in a 2002 Saturn Vue westbound on Highway 20 shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday near mile post 73. A marked patrol vehicle, travelling westbound ahead of the Saturn spotted a driver going eastbound. Trooper Jeffrey Meldrum activated his emergency lights and performed a U-turn to pursue.
Emergency crews pulled an injured driver from her SUV Friday night in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 20 near Philomath, deputies said.
Around 8 p.m., 60-year-old James Jones of Waldport was heading east on the highway, towing a tractor in his Chevy pickup truck, when for some reason, he crossed the center line and slammed head-on into 52-year-old Janice Hancock in her Honda CRV, said the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.
Then, 60-year-old Maureen Lucas, who was driving behind Hancock, sideswiped Jones before all three vehicles came to rest.
Oregon State Police continues to investigate a fatal crash Sunday afternoon along Highway 20 east of Bend that killed one man and seriously injured another.
The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m., when a 1998 Dodge pickup driven by Matthew A. Dreyer, 35, of Star, Idaho, was negotiating a curve along westbound on Highway 20 near milepost 31. The truck traveled off the side of the highway and when Dreyer over-corrected, trying to bring it back under control, the pickup rolled repeatedly, said OSP Lieutenant Gregg Hastings.