Two Die In I-84 Accident

Two people died in a motor vehicle accident involving a wrong-way driver early Sunday morning on Interstate 84 in Gilliam County.  According to the Oregon State Police, a preliminary investigation revealed that a car driven by 29-year-old Josue Amando Lopez-Munoz of Prosser was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes.  His car struck an eastbound vehicle driven by 33-year-old Anita Dugger of Salem.  Both Lopez-Munoz and Dugger sustained fatal injuries.  A 13-year-old boy in Dugger’s vehicle was taken by air ambulance to The Dalles and later by ground to Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital in Portland.  The accident occurred at around 5:45 a.m. Sunday.  The OSP was assisted by North Gilliam Fire Department, Lifeflight, Morrow and Benton county sheriff’s offices, the Gilliam County District Attorney and Medical Examiner, and the Oregon Department of Transportation.

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