Driver unhurt but cited in O’Neil Hwy. rollover crash
Two Prineville residents escaped serious injuries, but one was cited after a rollover crash of a pickup truck Thursday night on the O’Neil Highway, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.
Deputies and Crook County Fire and Rescue medics responded around 8:50 p.m. to the single-vehicle crash on O’Neil Highway (state Highway 370) at milepost 8.7, about halfway between Redmond and Prineville, said sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Dethman.
Dethman said Bobby Moody, 36, and passenger Ashley Hurt, 19, were heading east on the highway when he lost control of the 1996 Chevy Tahoe.
Medics were attending to Hurt when deputies arrived, Dethman said, and the pickup had gone through a barbed-wire fence, ending up 25 yards off the road.
An investigaton determined Moody had gotten into the gravel on the road shoulder, over-corrected and lost control, causing the pickup to go down an embankment and crash through the fence, coming to rest on its roof.
The two occupants were taken to St. Charles Prineville, where Hurt was treated for minor injuries and released, Dethman said. Moody was cited for careless driving and failure to drive in the lane.
