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The pickup truck involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 5 south of Eugene had been stolen in the Portland area.
Oregon State Police say the pickup hit a disabled semi-truck on the shoulder Tuesday morning.
A passenger in the pickup died at the scene. She was identified as 22-year-old Christina Marie Armstrong. KVAL reports she had recently moved to Portland from Cape Coral, Florida.
Alcohol was likely a contributing factor in a Monday morning crash in which 24-year-old Erin Fast allegedly hit Robert Kahl, 40, with her car at the intersection of Northeast Revere Avenue and Division Street, according to a news release from Bend Police Lt. Nick Parker.
Fast, a Bend resident, was driving eastbound on Northeast Revere Avenue when her car hit Kahl, who was riding a bike. Kahl, also a Bend resident, was transported to St. Charles Bend, where he remains in critical condition.
A Prineville man was killed and his female passenger was injured when their pickup crashed into a semi-truck north of Madras on Saturday.
The crash was reported about noon along U.S. 97 near milepost 76 when a southbound pickup crossed into opposing traffic and hit the side of a northbound truck with a semi-trailer, according to Oregon State Police. The pickup driver, 21-year-old Jordan A. Dunaway, was died at the scene.
The motorcyclist who was killed in a crash Monday night in Happy Valley has been identified as Michael Anthony Palmeri, 59, of Clackamas.
At 6:25 p.m. Happy Valley police responded to a crash involving a car and two motorcycles on Oregon 212 near Southeast 142nd Avenue. Police said all three vehicles were driving traveling on Oregon 212 when a Mazda Tribute tried to pass the motorcycles.
The SUV struck the motorcycles, causing one of the riders to be thrown from his bike and into the path of the SUV. The rider was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Saturday at about 10:48 p.m., a 2001 Volkswagen Bug driven by Sharon Monk, 53, of Stanfield, Ore., was northbound on Highway 11 near milepost 11 when her car traveled off the left side of the highway, down a steep embankment and rolled before coming to rest in a field on its top.
A 53-year-old woman was killed Friday night when her car crashed on a highway in Umatilla County, the Oregon State Police said.
Sharon Kay Monk of Stanfield, Ore., was northbound on Highway 11 in a 2001 Volkswagen Bug near Adams, Ore., state police said.
A 64-year-old truck driver died after a crash on Interstate 84 in Hood River. Oregon State Police
Authorities have released the name of the truck driver who died in a crash early Friday morning on Interstate 84 in Hood River.
The 2004 Freightliner truck pulling an empty container trailer was heading west on Interstate 84 near milepost 63 when it drifted to the left and hit a guardrail on the south side of the highway.
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.
A Corvallis man died and four Philomath residents suffered minor injuries in a Saturday afternoon crash in Albany, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said.
Boyd Everett Taylor, 48, was driving westbound on U.S. 20 just east of Scenic Drive when he lost control of his 1999 Kia Sportage around 3:42 p.m., authorities said. He crossed broadside into the eastbound lane, where an oncoming 2011 GMC Sierra 2500 pickup collided head-on with the passenger side of Taylor's car.