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Three dead in Highway 20 wreck

Three people were killed in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 6, when their vehicle crashed into a tractor-trailer rig on Highway 20 between Camp Sherman and Suttle Lake.

According to Oregon State Police, Richard Caudle of Prineville was hauling a large Caterpillar bulldozer on a lowboy trailer, westbound en route to the Link Fire west of Sisters.

Caudle was making a left turn onto a Forest Service road when an eastbound vehicle struck the right, rear area of the trailer.

The three people in the passenger vehicle were killed; Caudle was uninjured, according to OSP reports. Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies, Black Butte Ranch Police, Oregon Department of Transportation personnel and Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District personnel also responded to the accident.

Police were attempting to identify the victims and notify next of kin. The crash remains under investigation.

 

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