Three treated after collision of vehicles in Downtown CJ
From our weekly issue dated October 31, 2007
(Photos by Jennifer Newsted, Illinois Valley News)
Two Illinois Valley residents and a Bureau of Land Management law enforcement officer were treated and released following a three-vehicle crash in Downtown Cave Junction.
The accident on Wednesday, Oct. 24 was reported at 7:22 p.m. It occurred on Hwy. 199 at King’s Chinese Restaurant.
A Josephine County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) patrol deputy responded to the collision. Also on-scene were Illinois Valley Fire District and American Medical Response (AMR).
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Drivers were identified as Erwin D. Akins and Stephen J. Horak, both 58; and Jason Stanton, a BLM contract deputy working for Josephine County Sheriff’s Office.
The civilians were taken by AMR ambulance to Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass.
The deputy apparently got there by some other means, and all three were reported “treated and released.”
Akins was to be cited on a charge of following too close, said JCSO.
(Photos by Jennifer Newsted, Illinois Valley News)
It appeared, and based on a witness statement, that one vehicle was facing south, waiting to make a left turn from 199 into the King’s Chinese parking lot. That vehicle apparently was struck from the rear.
Indications were that because the wheels were turned left for the turn, that when the vehicle was struck, it was pushed onto the lanes for northbound traffic. That’s when the BLM pickup truck, with federal government license plates, became involved.
Traffic was hampered for a time, as a civilian pickup truck involved ended up on the west side of 199 adjacent to the Shop Smart Food Warehouse parking lot. And the BLM pickup truck and Horak’s van were on the east side of 199 in front of King’s Chinese Cuisine.
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