KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. – One person died after a crash in Oregon.
According to a release from the Oregon State Police (OSP), on Sunday, April 12, at 3:48 p.m., OSP officers responded to a two-vehicle fatal crash on Highway 97 near milepost 220 in Klamath County.
OSP says its preliminary investigation indicated a black Kia Forte, operated by Mark Evan Simpson, 48, of Portland, was traveling northbound on Hwy. 97 when it entered the scene of three-vehicle non-injury crash.
The Kia crossed the center line and proceeded through the southbound travel lane and collided head-on with a Volvo 760 commercial motor vehicle, operated by Das Balbir, 59, of Richmond of British Columbia, pulling onto the shoulder to avoid a disabled vehicle from the first crash.
As a result of the collision, the Kia spun back across the northbound lanes and came to a rest against a tree off the northbound shoulder of the highway.
Simpson was declared deceased at the scene.
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