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Highway 26 closes a fatal crash west of Timber Junction

Highway 26 closes a fatal crash west of Timber Junction

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Helicopter, ambulance and local fire brigade agencies met on Saturday evening at the scene of a fatal crash of two vehicles on Highway 26 near Milepost 31, an area west of the Four County Point area.

According to the spokesman for the Bank Fire District, Mitch Ward, the crash in the area of ​​the rural fire protection district in Alsie Vinemaple occurred west of the end of the fire department of the bank. Banks Fire supported the smaller district on Saturday evening in the crash, said Ward.

According to the PulsePoint app, the call was sent shortly after 6 p.m. from 10:30 p.m. The Ministry of Transport by Oregon said that the Highway 26 was closed.

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Ward said that the crash requires dropouts and a rope rescue after one of the two vehicles had walked a steep dam along a steep dam.

A total of six patients were involved in the crash. Two were transported by helicopters by helicopters, which landed in the nearest practical landing zone in the retirement of Sunset in Clatsop County.

Two other patients were brought into trauma centers with a medix ambulance and AMR with the soil, while a patient was brought to a regional hospital in the Medic 13 -hospital of the Banks Fire District in a critical condition.

Also assisted scene, Crews of the Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District, who had command about the landing zone, Hillsboro Fire & Rescue, the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Oregon State Police, the Sheriff office of Washington County and a chaplain of the fire department of Cornelius.

“Banks Fire would like to remind the travelers that everything that can happen on streets at any time, especially during peak times on the holiday weekends,” said Ward. “Always be about road conditions and other vehicles at all times.

The Oregon State Police usually examines fatal accidents on state motorways and is expected to publish further details of the crash. This story can be updated.


Chas Hundley is the editor of the publications of the Banks Post and Sister News the Gales Creek Journal and The Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.

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