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The 57-year-old driver was being pursued by the police before crashing into an oncoming vehicle, which caused a collision with a third vehicle. The driver going the wrong-way was taken to Emanuel Hospital with a broken back, ribs and hip and is expected to recover. The two other drivers have already been treated and release by nearby hospitals.

Robert Henry Baker, 66, killed, and Alicia G. Breckheimer, 31, critically injured after a head-on crash on I-82 near Hermiston, Oregon

Date:

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Area:

Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, WA

Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 82 near Hermiston early Friday involving a wrong-way driver. About 1:30 a.m., a Hermiston woman, later identified as Alicia G. Breckheimer 31, was headed west in her 2005 Cadillac CTS in the eastbound lanes of I-82 smashed nearly head-on into a 2006 Chrysler 300 driven by a 66-year old man from Ione. The Cadillac ended up in the center median and the Chrysler stopped on the eastbound shoulder. The man, later identified as Robert Henry Baker, was pronounced deceased at the scene.