An Oregon road worker was hospitalized with serious injuries Sunday after he was struck by a Vancouver driver who lost control of her vehicle when approaching the scene of another crash, according to the Oregon State Police.
Police said two Portland-area men rolled their sport-utility vehicle around 3 p.m. after the driver lost control south of Parkdale, Ore. — north of Mount Hood — on state Highway 35. The men were unhurt, police said.
After the crash, Oregon Department of Transportation employee Stephen Capps, 65, stopped to check on them. Not long after, Lucia Acevedo Martinez of Vancouver, 25, lost control of her 2005 Toyota Scion and struck Capps.
One of the men in the first crash — Nicholas Michael Magaurn, 29, of Portland — told officials he narrowly avoided being hit himself but jumped out of the way.
