Tri-Cities Good Samaritan killed when he stopped to help at I84 crash in Oregon

A Richland, Wash., man was hit and killed as he was trying to reach people in a crashed Ford Ranger Sunday afternoon on rain-slicked Interstate 84 in Umatilla County, Ore.

Kenneth Dale Strong, 65, was driving west on the interstate and was about 10 miles west of Pendleton near the I-84 Yoakum Road exit when he stopped to help the people in a Ford Ranger. The pickup had rolled as it was being driven east, according to a preliminary report of the Oregon State Police.

Strong was walking in the median toward the pickup when a westbound Ford Explorer hydroplaned on the wet road.

Driver Lloyd Lawrence Barkley, 66, of Pendleton, lost control of the SUV and hit Strong about 4:40 p.m., according to police reports.

Strong died before he could be taken to a hospital.