Accidents that occured in Oregon or impacted Oregon residents.
An Alaska Airlines pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder and endangering an airplane after threats made Sunday. Authorities say off-duty pilot Joseph David Emerson, 44, was taken into custody after a disturbance on a Horizon Air flight heading to San Francisco from Everett.
A multi-car crash on Highway 26 near Elsie, Oregon, injured several people. The incident occurred on Monday and resulted in multiple victims. No further details have been released at this time.
A crash involving a semi truck and passenger vehicle is causing major delays from I-84 east to northbound I-205 in Portland. Two people were taken to the hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries. Traffic is delayed significantly on I-205 north.
A teenage driver died in a car crash in Washington County, while his passengers were taken to the hospital. The driver, Jesse Warginer, was not wearing a seatbelt at the time. Speed, alcohol, and controlled substances are believed to be factors in the crash.
The Oregon Department of Transportation will shut down a portion of I-84 west for multiple hours Monday while it uses special equipment to recover the two semis that crashed into the Columbia River at nearly the exact same location Friday night, but at different times.
A Marion County man, Harley Auten, died Saturday night following a bicycle-pickup truck crash on Oregon Route 164. Harley Auten, 42, of Jefferson, was pronounced dead at Salem Hospital. The driver of the pickup truck, Brian Hammons, turned himself in and was charged with hit and run.
An Oregon driver crashed 120 feet down an embankment, rolling her car and hitting several large boulders and trees. She didn’t have cell service, so she decided to sleep until daylight. Deputies with the Crook County Sheriff’s Office were called out on reports of a crash at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday on a rural road near Prineville.
A three-vehicle crash in Portland on Sunday morning left one car crashed on top of another. One person was extricated through the windshield, and another person involved in the crash did not require an ambulance. The cause of the crash is unknown.
A bicyclist was killed Friday morning after being hit by a semi-truck north of Cornelius, authorities said. The semi-truck driver stayed on the scene and is cooperating. The crash caused the closure of Northwest Susbauer Road during the investigation.
A person is dead after a car crashed through a bus stop in southeast Portland on Saturday evening. The driver remained at the scene and was not hurt. This is the 36th traffic death of 2023 in Portland, and the fifth in the last 10 days.