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Sunday, December 15, 2013Area:
Portland, ORSix people, including four children, were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a “high speed rear-end collision” in Battle Ground, police said. A westbound Toyota FJ Cruiser reared-ended a GMC Yukon near Southeast Eaton Boulevard and South Grace Boulevard, according to a spokesman for Clark County Fire & Rescue. The crash was reported at 3:44 p.m. During the accident, the Cruiser crumpled the Yukon so badly that it reached the back row of seats, where two children were sitting. Nobody, however, was seriously injured in the crash.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013A 2-month-old child and a pair of adults dodged death when a passing driver clipped their car on an icy road near Klamath Falls on Wednesday and sent both vehicles flying into an irrigation canal, police said.
Howard Kingman, of Sisters, was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe north on U.S. 97 around 1:05 p.m. when he tried to pass a Toyota Prius near milepost 264, Oregon State Police said.
The 70-year-old driver lost control on the icy roadway and struck the Prius, which carried Robert Burton, 56, Bree Burton, 20, and her infant son, police said.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA woman and her 6-year-old son were identified Sunday as the victims who died in a two-vehicle crash near on ic-slick Hwy. 212 in Carver County. Three other people were hurt but are expected to survive. The accident happened at 1:50 p.m. Saturday and involved a vehicle driving east that spun out and into the path of a pickup truck heading the opposite direction. Killed were two passengers in the car: Angelica Salas, 29, of Lester Prairie, Minn., and 6-year-old son Jorge E. Salas.