Corvallis, OR : Box truck crashes on Circle Blvd. after driver suffers medical emergency on Wednesday, 14th October, 2020

A Corvallis man suffering a medical emergency was behind the wheel of a box truck that crashed and caused another injury off Circle Boulevard near Highland Drive on Wednesday morning.

Corvallis police and fire personnel responded to a crash at 990 NW Circle Blvd. at 9:07 a.m., according to information from the Corvallis Police Department. They found the driver, 57-year-old Corvallis resident Douglas Ackland, unconscious after the box truck he was driving east on Circle veered off the road and into a parking lot outside a Samaritan Health Services building.

The truck hit a parked car belonging to 73-year-old Jeanne Bauer, who was entering the vehicle when the crash happened and was knocked to the ground. She received minor injuries, according to the police report.

Ackland received attention from medically trained workers until emergency personnel showed. He is now in the care of Good Samaritan Medical Regional Medical Center, where he’s since regained consciousness.

Corvallis police have not issued any citations “based on the factors leading up the crash.”

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