Canby , OR : 31-year-old driver and 9 - years old girl Passenger Were killed a head-on crash after2000 Hyundai was collided with a northbound commercial truck on Monday , January 11th 2015

Police identified the 31-year-old driver who died in in a head-on crash Monday on Oregon 99E near Canby as Meghan Callahan of Milwaukie.

The name of a passenger in Callahan's car, a 9-year-old girl who later died at OHSU Hospital, was not released.

Lt. Josh Brooks, an Oregon State Police spokesman, said Callahan's 2000 Hyundai was traveling south at about Milepost 17 at 10:20 a.m. when for an unknown reason it crossed the center line into oncoming traffic. It collided with a northbound commercial truck hauling a steamroller on a flat-bed trailer.

Callahan died at the scene. Her passenger was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to OHSU and died at 12:47 p.m. The driver of the truck was not injured.

The Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality responded to the crash site to clean up a diesel fuel spill of less than 50 gallons, Brooks said.


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Driver in double-fatal crash near Canby identified as 31-year-old Milwaukie woman