JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – A person died after a crash on Interstate 5 near the Oregon-California border.
Oregon State Police said on Sunday, April 30, 55-year-old Javier Leon Guerrero of Sacramento was sleeping inside a Chevrolet Venture on the shoulder of Interstate 5 near milepost 1.
A preliminary investigation by OSP indicates that at about 3:00 a.m., a Volvo commercial motor vehicle hauling a trailer was traveling on the northbound shoulder of I-5 when it crashed into the back of the parked Chevrolet.
Guerrero was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the CMV, identified as 31-year-old Rajabov Shokhrukh of Las Mesa, California, was not injured.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, OSP said.
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