This morning at about 2:40AM, OSP Troopers and emergency personnel responded to the report of a roll over crash on Highway 22 just west of Salem, near Highway 51/Independence Highway.
Oregon State Police is telling us that tonight a vehicle struck a pedestrian on Highway 99W near milepost 47 (just south of Amity). Preliminary information indicates a highway work zone flagger was struck while flagging traffic.
The Marion County Sheriff Office say that tonight at about 5:30 p.m., deputies were called to the area of Silverton Road NE and Desart Road NE on what witnesses reported as a motorcycle versus truck crash.
UPDATE: Just after 3:00 PM, Douglas Barnes, 46 years of age from Amity, was operating a 1985 Peterbilt pulling two flat bed trailers loaded with lumber, when it rolled over as he was southbound on the Salem Parkway negotiating the curve onto Commercial St NE. Barnes was not injured in the crash. The truck leaked diesel fuel and the lumber spilled onto the roadway and into a manufactured home park. The crash also sheared off a power pole.
Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal head on crash that occured this afternoon on highway 22W at milepost 6.5, near Red Prairie Road in Polk County. Preliminary information indicates shortly before 4:30 p.m., a green, 1995 Plymouth Neon, was westbound on highway 22W near Red Prairie Road overtaking another vehicle in the oncoming lane.
Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into Sunday morning's single vehicle fatality crash on SR 240 near milepost 6 in Coos Bay. On February 8, 2015, at 10:39 a.m., OSP troopers were dispatched to a single vehicle rollover crash on Highway 240 near milepost 6.
UPDATE: Last night, at about 11:55 p.m., deputies with the Marion County Sheriff's Office responded to a two vehicle crash at the intersection of Quinaby Road NE and River Road N near Keizer. At the same time Alfonso Acosta-Acosta, age 20, of Keizer was driving his blue, 1997, Acura westbound on Quinaby Road NE. At the intersection of the two roads the vehicles collided sending both men to the hospital.
Salem Police are investigating an early morning fatal vehicle/pedestrian crash on Center St NE near 18th St NE. Salem Police officers were dispatched to the intersection at approximately 5:45 this morning and found that 64-year old Stephen Buchanan of Keizer had been driving eastbound on Center St when he struck 77-year old David McGregor of Salem.
Last night at about 6:00 p.m., deputies with the Marion County Sheriff's Office were called to the area of Cascade Highway and Golf Lane SE near Stayton to investigate a vehicle versus pedestrian crash. It was determined that Harold McAlister, age 59 of Sublimity was attempting to cross Cascade Highway near Golf Lane from east to west. At the time of the crash it was dark, raining heavily with very little to no street lighting in the area.
Oregon State Police tell us they are investigating a crash at milepost 267 on I-5 southbound with blockage. The northbound lanes of travel are not affected. According to the OSP Northern Command Center, the Marion County Sheriff's Office began getting reports of a vehicle going the wrong way on I-5, northbound in the southbound lanes, at approximately milepost 264.