Brookings, OR : California corrections officer dies in single-vehicle crash Saturday morning on July 19, 2014

Oregon State Police are investigating the cause of a Saturday morning car crash that killed an off-duty corrections officer from California.

Police were notified at 7:15 a.m. that a 2007 Dodge Caliber driven by Joel Ramos, 29, of Brookings, had crossed an oncoming lane of traffic along Oregon 101. The car went off the road and crashed head-on into a tree, about one mile north of the state border.

Ramos was on his way home from work at Pelican Bay State Prison, which is part of the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation.

Ramos was pronounced dead at the scene. He was using a seatbelt, and the car's airbags had deployed.

Source :
California corrections officer dies in single-vehicle crash along southern Oregon coast