Off-Duty NORCOR Deputy Talks Man Off Of Cliff

The Sherman County Sheriff’s Office says an off-duty deputy from the Northern Oregon Correctional Facility helped prevent a driver who had been in a motor vehicle accident on Highway 97 from jumping off a cliff.  According to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office, crews responded to the crash Wednesday afternoon just south of Biggs Junction on Highway 97, and the incident turned into a report of the driver threating to jump.  Officers found the driver up the side of a hill near a cliff.  The Sheriff’s Office statement says off-duty NORCOR Deputy Nathan Christensen was passing by when he saw what was going on, and went to help the distraught driver.  Christensen walked the driver back down the hill without further incident.  The Oregon State Police is investigating the crash.

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