UPDATE: DRIVER IDENTIFIED - SERIOUS INJURY TRAFFIC CRASH - HIGHWAY 224 NEAR JOHNSON ROAD (PHOTOS)
Posted: August 31st, 2010 1:35 PM
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(Note: The initial news release indicated the injured driver was an adult female which was based upon information from fire personnel. Troopers contacted her at the hospital and confirmed her name and age as noted below)
A 17-year old Milwaukie girl received serious but non-life threatening injuries Tuesday morning in a five vehicle traffic crash on Highway 224 near Johnson Road. A commercial truck driver who caused the crashed was cited by Oregon State Police (OSP) for Careless Driving.
On August 31, 2010 at approximately 7:25 a.m. a 2008 Peterbuilt truck pulling semi-trailer driven by JEROME HEIDT, age 64, from Moxee, Washington was eastbound on Highway 224 approaching slowing traffic at the Johnson Road intersection. HEIDT failed to see the slowing traffic and crashed into the back of a black 2001 Honda Civic driven by BRITTANY BASEEL, age 17, from Milwaukie, in the right eastbound lane. The impact pushed the Honda Civic into the back of a utility trailer towed by a van forcing the van forward into the back of a blue 2010 Toyota Pruis. The Toyota was pushed forward into the back of a blue 1988 Honda Civic.
BASEEL was trapped inside her Honda Civic. Fire personnel from Clackamas Fire District 1 extricated her and she was transported by ambulance to Oregon Health Sciences University.
One of the three occupants in the van was taken by a private party to a local hospital with minor injuries. No other persons were injured.
HEIDT was cited by OSP for Careless Driving.
OSP troopers from the Portland Area Command office are completing the investigation. ODOT assisted with traffic control as one lane was getting through in both directions using the westbound lanes for about three hours.
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