WILLAMINA, OR : Oregon teen returns to track after crash on Saturday, 19th May 2018

It has been six months since the crash that altered Owen Baker’s life.

Baker, a junior at Willamina High School, was paralyzed from the waist down after a single-car crash.

He was a passenger in the back seat of a Jeep Wrangler late in the afternoon, headed to Nestucca near the northern Oregon Coast for a fishing expedition with two friends. Only Baker, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered serious injuries after the vehicle rolled over and plunged down what he described as “a 35-foot embankment” in slippery conditions.

Baker spent two weeks in the trauma unit at OHSU Hospital in Portland, where he underwent surgery, followed by nearly two months of physical therapy at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel. He returned home a few days before Christmas.

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Oregon teen returns to track after crash