Editor’s note: This report is based on information submitted by the Oregon State Police. All crashes with fatalities may not be included. The status of incidents might change after further investigation.
THURSDAY, JULY 23
• 10:37 p.m. — Troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on Highway 26 near Sandy that took the life of James Glenn Fisher, 62, of Medford. OSP’s preliminary investigation indicated that a Freightliner semitruck and triple trailer driven by a 36-year-old Bend man was traveling westbound near East Terra Fern Drive when it overheated and stopped in the westbound travel lane. A white Volvo semitruck and triple trailer driven by Fisher rear-ended the Freightliner. Fisher was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Freightliner’s driver was not injured…