Milwaukie, OR : 2 Multnomah County inmates injured in crash while working along Milwaukie highway on Wednesday, 9th January 2019

Two Multnomah County inmates were injured Wednesday when a van crashed into the back of a pickup while they were working along a highway in Milwaukie.

The two men, 27 and 33, were part of an inmate work crew clearing low-hanging tree branches and brush along westbound Oregon 224 near the Southeast Lake Road exit, according to Officer Brad Walther, a Milwaukie police spokesman.

One inmate was handing debris to the other inmate, who was standing in the back of an Oregon Department of Transportation truck parked on the road shoulder, when a van veered out of its lane, hit the inmate on the ground and rear-ended the pickup around 10:50 a.m., Walther said.

The inmate in the ODOT truck was thrown from the pickup because of the impact. Both men were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Walther said. He said he didn’t know the name of the injured inmates.

Sgt. Brandon White, a Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said his agency is not yet releasing the men’s identities. The two were part of a four-inmate work crew and were accompanied by a sheriff’s deputy. No one else was injured.

The van driver, 25-year-old Jospeh Anaya, was cited for careless driving, Walther said. It was a work van from MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, a Washington-based mechanical contractor.

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