Semi truck hits deputy's SUV during traffic stop along I-5
SALEM, Ore. – A semi-truck crashed into a Marion County sheriff’s deputy’s patrol SUV during a traffic stop along Interstate 5 Saturday morning.
No one was hurt in the crash, Marion County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Don Thomson said.
Sheriff’s deputy Cody Lane cited Shannon Duffy of Brownsville for careless driving and driving with a suspended license at around 9 a.m., Thomson said.
Deputy Lane waited on the I-5 shoulder with Duffy while she and her coworker loaded boxes from her company car into another car before Duffy’s was impounded.
At around 10:45 a.m., a semi-truck with two trailers crashed into the barrier on the right side of the freeway and then hit the patrol SUV.
The truck driver, 61-year-old Michael Dunham of Oregon City, was not hurt in the crash.
The truck came to a stop facing south in the northbound lanes. The patrol SUV was totaled, Thomson said. The semi-truck had minor damage.
State Police were called in to investigate. No citations have been issued.
I-5 was closed for several hours after the crash. It reopened at around 2:15 p.m.
I think they can just buff that scratch out and everything will be fine.
Thank god no one was hurt. Â
David Kobbeman
That parasite will have to get another car before he can feed off of the people again.
Oops! Thank goodness no one was hurt. Well, aside from the DOA SUV!
 @Mikey Yea, at about $42,000 a whack and most insurance companies will not pay for the damages if the driver is not legal to drive a company car. Man, the haggling and paperwork alone...
I thought that suspended license was the same as NO license. Was he Arrested ?
 @Glenn Pierce "He" was the semi-driver and did not get cited. The "she" was the original car that was stopped by MCSO and since ORYGUN decriminalized certain degrees of DWS, "she" just gets a ticket and her car gets towed. Trust me, it took reading the comments from folks smarter than me to figure it all out and I used to do Traffic Homicide for a living...
 @boned  @Glenn Pierce The article at first place is confusing and I had to re-read it multiple times to get the time line right. The organization could have been better if K2's crappy interns actually embraced the concept of proof-reading.
Every truck driver wants a career ending wreck with a Sheriff, NOT. Â Â I'm sure a 4 wheeler did a panic stop in front of the truck. Highly doubt that speeding was a factor or truck would have been laying on its side
 @j Walrath Most likely some idiot went "OMG COP LIGHTS!" *SLAM BRAKES* because he was doing only 5 under the posted speed.
"while she and her coworker loaded boxes from her company car into another car before Duffyâs was impounded."
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Using a company car that gets impounded, suspended license, this will cost her in many ways, Tickets, and more than likely her job. She knew better in many ways. If a person has a suspended license, they should be super careful so as to not get caught. Her employer may do some serious talking to her.
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Glad no one was injured in the mess.
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@Just Lookin  Serious talking? Yeah, like, "YOUR FIRED"
If you ever forget if it is the weekend, just read the articles. Most stations use a back-up editor on saturday, but KATU uses third string!
@iamtroglodite Its probably illegal aliens, judging from all the pro-ILLeGAL alien stories they do.
@iamtroglodite That's a pretty mean comment. Yeah it's a weekend, and it's probably someone with little seniority. But they did the job, if not up to your literary standards. Some constructive criticism is in order; name calling isn't.
 @iamtroglodite Cheap labor - you pay peanuts, you get monkey's...
Poorly written article: I had to read it twice to figure out who was who and to follow the time-line. The first traffic stop was the person with the suspended license. The article doesn't say if the second driver (of the semi) had a suspended license or not. However, Oregon law states that traffic is to slow down and move over (if possible) to the opposite lane when passing an emergency vehicle or patrol car on the side of the road. The first stop was made at "around 9 am" and the semi plowed into the patrol vehicle almost 2 hours later. Surely other traffic was slowing down and moving over? Luckily the officers and the other two people were on the side of the road and not beside the vehicle that got demolished (or inside it).
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Glad nobody was hurt because - as margay1 said - "this one could have been pretty messy, people-wise..."
 @seymore I had to read the comments before I got it - must be the fact that I was an English major in the early 70's and things have really changed...
The anonymity of "KATU Staff" in preparing the story allows grammatical discretion! LOL
Gee, I wonder why his license was suspended?
It wasn't the driver of the semi with the suspended license. It was the driver of the SUV, and it was a SHE.
Hmm... wonder why the semi-truck ran into the barriers (and from there, into the cop's SUV)..? Â Â Gonna take a LOT of duct tape to fix up that poor SUV..! Â Â
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Glad nobody was hurt... this one could have been pretty messy, people-wise...
Glad no one was seriously hurt! That's a nasty dust-up.
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Were there no flares out to show that there was a longer than normal traffic citation situation? Those small little blue and red lights on the LE SUV's license plate area are not bright enough in the rain to denote a traffic stop.Â
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Just sayin'....
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 @washcomom Typically they don't put flares out on a traffic stop and those little lights are very powerful strobes and impossible to miss; unless you're driving with a suspended license and your head head is, well never mind where it is.
 @Scotty9 The trucker didn't have the suspended license; it was the initial traffic stop with Shannon Duffy, who was moving boxes from one car to another. The trucker, MIchael Dunham, is the one that slammed and demolished the SUV.Â
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If a police officer has more than one car involved to the side of the road, and there is foot traffic around the parked cars, then there is a large question of safety for everyone concerned.Â
Ya, that's gonna cost her. Â
"She" was the original traffic stop. Getting her car impounded for driving while suspended/careless. The truck driver was a 61 yo man. However I'm sure her offense will "cost her" as well.
Ooops!