Two California residents died and a 4-year-old girl was injured on Saturday afternoon after an impaired driver from Brownsville swerved throughout the lanes of U.S. Highway 20 west of Sweet Home, then back again, crashing head-on with another car.
Officials responded to the two-vehicle crash around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday on Highway 20 near milepost 23 which took place when an eastbound red Mazda 3 driven by a 33-year-old Brownsville man swerved throughout the lanes of traffic onto the westbound shoulder, then back into the eastbound lanes, crashing head-on with a silver Nissan Versa driven by a 79-year-old identified as Carl Curtis, of Huntington Beach, California, who tried to avoid the oncoming car.
The driver was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
A 4-year-old female passenger in his car was hospitalized with critical injuries.
Curtis and his 73-year-old passenger identified as Yvonne Levy, 73 were both pronounced dead at the scene.
Highway 20 was closed for about four hours.
Oregon State Police is investigating the crash and has urged witnesses to contact them at 800-442-07765 or OSP (677), in reference to Case No. SP22-113804.
