April 21, 2008

Accidents claim three lives over weekend
Sherman County crash kills one, Gilliam County crash kills two

     One Sherman County man died and five other people were injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident near Grass Valley Sunday night, according to Sheriff Brad Lohrey of Sherman County.
     Del Dean Lindsey, 57, a resident of Moro, was pronounced dead at the scene.
     The crash was reported about 6 p.m. Sunday and occurred on Finnegan Road, south of Grass Valley.
     A 1993 Ford Bronco with six people in it was southbound on the gravel road when it lost control and rolled. Three people were ejected from the vehicle.
     Air Life was called and airlifted one of the injured to Mid-Columbia Medical Center. Four others were transported there by ambulance. Lohrey did not release names of the injured.
     The crash remained under investigation Monday morning.
     “Speed will play a factor,” Lohrey said.
     In Gilliam County, a Spokane Valley, Wash., mother and her 12-year old daughter died, and her 10-year old son received non-life threatening injuries, Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 84 about 11 miles east of Arlington.
     According to Oregon State Police Sergeant Julie Wilcox, on April 20, at 4:19 p.m. a 2000 Subaru Forester station wagon driven by Heather Shrum, 33, from Spokane Valley was eastbound on Interstate 84 at milepost 148. For an unknown reason Shrum veered right onto the gravel shoulder, apparently over-corrected to the left and lost control. The Subaru rolled several times on the roadway and down an embankment in the center median area between the eastbound and westbound lanes. The vehicle came to rest on its wheels facing west.
     Shrum and her 12-year old daughter, Lacy Fry, were dead at the scene. Shrum’s son, Bailey Fry, 10, was transported by ambulance to the Mid Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles with non-life threatening injuries.
     All occupants in the vehicle had been using safety restraints.
     Next of kin notifications were made by personnel from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
     Oregon State Police troopers from The Dalles Area Command office are completing the investigation. Gilliam County Sheriff’s Office, ODOT and Arlington Fire Department assisted at the scene of the crash.