CRR Woman Arrested After Rollover Crash
A Crooked River Ranch woman was arrested on DUII, assault and reckless driving charges Thursday after her small SUV crashed on the ranch, sending two of three passengers to area hospitals, a Jefferson County sheriff?s detective said Friday.
Deputies and Crooked River Ranch fire medics responded around 4:30 p.m. Thursday to a single-vehicle rollover crash at Chinook and Trout roads, said sheriff?s Detective Starla Green.
Three of the four people in the 1998 Isuzu Amigo had to be cut out of the vehicle?s wreckage, Green said, adding that the passengers? names were not being released. Two went to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, she added.
The front-seat passenger, a 57-year-old CRR man, was flown by Airlink helicopter to St. Charles Medical Center-Bend for treatment of a head injury and multiple fractures to his right leg, the detective said.
One rear passenger, a 56-year-old CRR woman, was taken to St. Charles-Redmond with a compound fracture of her right arm and other injuries, Green said. The other rear passenger, a 57-year-old CRR man was able to get out of the SUV on his own, and was treated at the scene for minor injuries, she said.
The driver, identified as Shawn Owen, 47, of CRR, was taken to the Redmond hospital with minor injuries and later released. But she was immediately arrested and taken to the county jail in Madras, where she was booked on charges of DUII, two counts of third-degree assault, one count of reckless driving and three counts of recklessly endangering another person.
The sheriff?s office is investigating the crash, with the assistance of Oregon State Police and Bend police.
Owen remained in the jail Friday, held on $15,000 bail. Green said court officials told her the bail was set low in part due to the woman’s lack of prior criminal record.
