No sign of braking before fatal rear end crash Sunday near Vale - OregonLive.com
Traffic crash reconstructionists continue to investigate the cause of a fatal Sunday morning crash between a farm truck and a passenger sedan between Vale and Ontario. Oregon State Police returned to U. S. 20 between Vale and Oregon 201, where two people were killed and two people suffered non-life threatening injuries. Shortly before 9:15 a. m. , Aquilino Castilleja Martinez, 72, of Ontario, had pulled onto Highway 20 from the south side near milepost 256 and was accelerating in the westbound lane when his 1973 Ford F600 farm truck was struck in the rear by a... There was no obvious roadway evidence showing the Dodge passenger car -- occupied by two adults and their teenaged daughter -- braked before impact, said an Oregon State Police spokesperson, Lieutenant Gregg Hastings. After the crash, the farm truck came to rest in a field off the highway and the car came to rest on the highway. Source: www.oregonlive.com
