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Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

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ACCIDENT: 2 Whitman College students seriously hurt in crash

Herald staff

IRRIGON Two Whitman college students are in serious condition today at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland after the car they were riding in attempted a U-turn near Interstate 84 and was hit by a truck, Oregon State Police said.

Katie Radosevic, 18, of Cornville, Arizona, and Lindsey Jacobs, 18, of Los Alamos, N.M., were traveling in a Lexus SUV driven by Margaret Allen, also a student at Whitman College in Walla Walla.

Their vehicle was hit by a commercial truck at 2:38 p.m. Friday, Nov.6 when Allen tried to make a U-turn on Highway 730, about one mile east of Interstate 84, police said.

Allen, 20, of Orlando, Fla., was driving toward Irrigon to look for fuel before she changed her mind and decided to head back to Interstate 84, police said.

Allen and another passenger Khoa Nguyen, 20, of Tacoma, suffered minor injuries. They were treated and released at Good Shepard Hospital in Hermiston.

Truck driver Dirk Martin, 47, of Hermiston, wasn’t injured.

Oregon State Police are investigating the accident.



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