GRASS VALLEY, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon State Police say three Washington state men died early Tuesday when their pickup collided with a commercial truck on a remote stretch of U.S. Highway 97 in Central Oregon.
The victims were identified as 23-year-old Jose Luis Sandoval Guerrero, the pickup driver, and two passengers, 43-year-old Audelino Sandoval-Barajas and 52-year old Pablo Alcala Marmolejo. All were from Mattawa, Wash.
Troopers say the pickup crossed the center line into the path of the semi-trailer truck driven by 58-year-old Benjamin Quiroz of Anaheim, Calif.
Quiroz and a passenger suffered minor injuries.
