News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Firefighters had to cut the roof off a passenger vehicle to get a young woman out. She was injured, but not too severely, in the two-car crash at Cloverdale Road and Highway 20.
A frightening wreck at the intersection of Highway 20 and Cloverdale Road on Saturday evening a little before 7 p.m. turned out to be less dangerous than it appeared.
According to Oregon State Police, the wreck occurred when an eastbound Honda sedan driven by Eric Steensen, 17, turned left toward Cloverdale Road and was struck by a Ford passenger car headed westbound.
The passenger-side impact left the Honda's passenger, 19-year-old Megan Gaudreau, trapped in the vehicle. Firefighters from the Cloverdale and Sisters fire districts responded to the wreck and extricated her from the vehicle by cutting off its roof.
She was transported via Air Life to the hospital due to concerns about possible internal injuries, but her injuries turned out to be non-life threatening.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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