News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
For the second time in the space of a week, a wreck closed a major highway into Sisters from the east.
Cloverdale firefighters cut a driver out of a wrecked Toyota RAV4 on Highway 126 on Friday, August 23.
A three-car pile-up on Highway 126, at the intersection with Camp Polk Road near Aspen Lakes, blocked traffic for a time in the late afternoon of Friday, August 23. Cloverdale Fire District personnel responded, along with an ambulance crew from Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District.
According to Captain Travis Bootes of the Cloverdale District, one woman was transported to the hospital complaining of neck and back pain. It appears that her vehicle was rear-ended as traffic was stopped for a vehicle turning onto Camp Polk from the highway.
"She got hit from the rear pretty hard," Bootes reported.
Cloverdale firefighters cut the car - a Toyota RAV4 - open to extract the driver from the top so that they could remove her without twisting her, Bootes said.
The RAV4 driver was the only one transported to the hospital in the incident.
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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