MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A man who suffered a broken leg when a horse stepped on it was rescued Friday afternoon on the Crooked River National Grassland and flown to St. Charles Bend, officials said. Jefferson County Fire and EMS responded around 1:30 p.m. to the area of Boyce Corral to assist a 50-year-old man
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A crash at the busy intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and 27th Street in northeast Bend has damaged the signal box, knocking out the traffic signal and making it a four-way stop until repairs are complete. The crash was reported around 1:20 p.m. In a traffic alert around 2:45 p.m., ODOT
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A Deschutes County jury has ruled in a $34 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Bend teen killed in June 2021 crash at Wickiup Reservoir that she and the teen himself represented nearly half of the negligence leading to his death, resulting in expected damages of less than $20,000 being awarded to his estate.
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Bend Police were still searching Monday for a 46-year-old Bend man and suspected DUII driver who fled officers investigating a reported domestic dispute Sunday night, then crashed into a light pole at the Mount Washington Drive-Simson Avenue roundabout and ran, prompting an alert to 2,100 area residents.
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Oregon State Police released more details Monday in a fatal crash early Saturday on US Highway 26 at the Mill Creek Bridge, where a Portland area man drove off the road and landed in the canyon 250 feet below.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Dozens of searchers from six Oregon and Northern California counties searched an area west of Klamath Falls on Saturday for a missing mushroom hunter last seen heading into the woods alone Thursday afternoon. The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office was notified shortly before noon Friday that Gerald “Jerry” Duane Severson, a
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An 80-year-old Bend man likely fell asleep at the wheel early Saturday morning when he drifted across Northeast Third Street and struck a large IHOP Restaurant sign. Police said he sustained minor injuries and got a ticket after the SUV caused major damage but did not totally topple the sign.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — Five empty freight cars derailed on the lower deck of Portland’s Streel Bridge Monday morning, halting vehicle traffic for nearly five hours, KGW reported. The upper and lower decks of the Steel Bridge were shut down to all vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle traffic for nearly five hours and the closure impacted
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Raising speed limits on highways could lead to more crashes on nearby roads, according to new research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This “spillover effect” can lead to dangerous clusters of crashes or “hotspots” on local roads within a one-mile radius of the interstate.
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A Crook County resident who heard the sounds of a very bad late-night crash last weekend stepped out of his parents’ house and stepped up to find the wreck, then the critically injured man thrown from it, and took other steps that he insists were not heroic — just doing what needed to be done.
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VALE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 17-year-old male driver was killed and his 13-year-old sister was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a collision with an SUV driven by a Redmond man who was passing a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 20 in Malheur County, Oregon State Police said. Troopers said they responded at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday to
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Culver woman was arraigned Wednesday on 26 misdemeanor charges, including DUII, assault and reckless driving, accused of running a Redmond stop sign last month and crashing into the side of a small school bus carrying 14 Baker County Future Farmers of America students, in town for a state convention. Three
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A Bend 18-year-old driving an apparent former police car in reckless fashion at speeds topping 120 mph at times sped from the Warm Springs area through Jefferson and Deschutes counties Monday evening until he hit spike strips, left Highway 97 and crashed in a field near Deschutes Junction, authorities said.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Crook County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue came to the aid Sunday evening of two Madras residents whose vehicle became stuck in the mud on a forest road in the Big Summit Prairie area of the Ochoco Mountains. Crook County 911 received a call around 6:15 p.m. from two people seeking help,
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four people are dead after the vehicle they were traveling in was struck by a train in rural Idaho Saturday, authorities said. Idaho State Police said the pickup was carrying a 38-year-old man, 36-year-old woman and two children, who were all from Nampa. The vehicle was traveling on a private road
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Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies on Saturday released the names of a Gilchrist couple who were killed Friday when the SUV’s speeding driver tried to pass a commercial truck, clipped it and ran off Knott Road, striking a tree and overturning. A family member was seriously injured.
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By Jeffrey Lindblom Click here for updates on this story MEDFORD, Oregon (KPTV) — A woman is warning people to be on the lookout for wildlife on the road after her father was hit and nearly killed by a turkey in Medford. Dave Duell was on his normal long-haul trucking route along Interstate 5 South
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After work zone fatalities in Washington state doubled in 2023 from the previous year, state agencies from both sides of the Columbia River are coming together to revitalize their focus on driver safety in and around work zones.
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A small plane on a flight from the Portland area to Idaho descended 8,600 feet in 78 seconds before it clipped a wire atop a high-voltage power line and crashed southeast of Madras a month ago, killing the Idaho couple aboard, federal investigators said Wednesday.
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A 17-year-old Culver High School student and active athlete was killed early Sunday morning when her car left Eureka Lane north of Culver and crashed, Jefferson County Sheriff Jason Pollock confirmed Monday.
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