Date: December 26, 2009
Location: Highway 42, east of Remote, Oregon
Names: Sigrid Wilma Wheeler, Sarah Helen Beck, Amber Nicole Olson, Ronald Eugene Beck, Robert D. Beck, Brett Dean Bishop
According to the Oregon State Police Report, a four-car crash on Highway 42 in Coos County, Oregon, east of the town of Remote, killed a Coos Bay woman the morning of December 26, 2009. Four people were injured, and Sigrid Wilma Wheeler, 74, was killed.
The crash happened on an icy stretch of road, when Brett Dean Bishop, 25, of Warrenton, lost control of his 2003 Dodge truck and slid into the eastbound lane. The truck sideswiped a car, then hit a PT Cruiser driven by Ronald Eugene Beck, 58, of Prosser. The collision pushed the PT Cruiser into the van behind it.
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