PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal crash that killed the wife of a state senator.
Oregon Public Broadcasting (https://bit.ly/2pmR1h1 ) reports that a semi-truck hauling a box trailer was unable to avoid 54-year-old Leta Baertschiger while she was out walking in the right lane of Interstate 5 near Grants Pass.
Baertschiger is the wife of Herman Baertschiger, a Republican state senator from southern Oregon.
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State police are unsure why the woman was walking along the interstate.
Baertschiger is survived by her husband and two sons.
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Information from: KOPB-FM, https://news.opb.org
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