Salem teen dies in crash on I-5 near Woodburn that stopped traffic Monday
An 18-year-old Salem man is dead after a crash with a semitruck near Woodburn on Interstate 5 on Monday afternoon that closed southbound traffic on the freeway for about two and a half hours.
Jacob Hernandez-Arellano, 18, of Salem, was driving southbound in a Honda Civic and made a lane change from the left lane to the middle lane of the freeway, according to Oregon State Police.
The car went into the path of a semitruck with a trailer operated by Jasvir Singh, 52, of Yuba City, California. The vehicles crashed and Hernandez-Arellano was pronounced dead at the scene.
Law enforcement responded to the crash on Monday around 2:40 p.m. Two lanes of I-5 southbound reopened 4 miles north of Woodburn to traffic at about 6 p.m. after the crash.
The passenger in the Honda Civic had non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a Salem hospital. Singh was not injured.
Dejania Oliver is the breaking news reporter for the Statesman Journal. Contact her at DAOliver@salem.gannett.com or follow on Twitter @DejaniaO.
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