Multi-Vehicle Crash On I-84 Injures Several People: State Police

MORROW COUNTY, OR — A four-vehicle crash along Interstate-84 in Morrow County Thursday afternoon sent seven people — including a 12-year-old girl — to four different hospitals across the state.

The investigation is still ongoing, according to Oregon State Police, and it's complicated by the number of vehicles involved. But this is what investigators have revealed so far:

• Traffic on I-84 had slowed near a construction zone when Summerville, Oregon, resident Austin Pendell, 24, reportedly initiated the chain reaction.
• Driving a 2012 Dodge pickup towing a flatbed trailer, Pendell reportedly hit a 2001 Pontiac driven by 37-year-old Jamie Starboard of Baker City, Oregon.
• Starboard's car was also occupied by three children, one of whom was a 12-year-old girl who suffered serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Mid Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles; Starboard and the two other children were taken to Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston, Oregon. Starboard suffered minor injuries, while the children only needed to be evaluated, police said.
• Pendell was taken to Good Shepherd Hospital with minor injuries, police said.

How the other vehicles were involved is still unclear, but the result was as follows:

• Silverton, Oregon, residents Christopher Guthridge, 27, and William Guthridge, 65, were in a 2012 Dodge pickup. William suffered critical injuries and required LifeFlight to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon. Christopher suffered serious injuries and was first taken by ground ambulance to Good Shepherd before also receiving a LifeFlight to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
• The last vehicle involved was a 2015 Kenworth Conventional Truck pulling a semi-trailer driven by 41-year-old Arthur O'Neal of Pritchard, Alabama. O'Neal was uninjured, police said.

This post will be updated when more information is available.

Photos Courtesy: Oregon State Police