FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                  

DATE: November 29, 2024

One deceased in single-vehicle crash on the parkway

Salem, Ore. — At approximately 7:30 a.m. today, officers and other emergency personnel responded to a collision on the Martin Luther King JR Parkway. 

Witnesses reported the driver of a pickup truck traveling southbound slowly drove off the roadway after passing through the intersection at Broadway ST NE. The truck struck a tree and traveled back onto the roadway where the vehicle stopped. Passersby attempted to provide medical aid to the unresponsive driver before the arrival of paramedics. 

The driver, 37-year-old Brett David Dhone of Canby, was transported to Salem Health where he later died. 

The Traffic Team’s preliminary investigation indicates Dhone suffered a medical event prior to the collision. 

The parkway was closed for approximately two hours between Liberty and Broadway STS NE with the assistance of an Oregon Department of Transportation traffic control crew.

The investigation into the collision is ongoing, and there are no other details available for release.

Today’s traffic incident is the twentieth fatal collision of 2024. In all, these collisions have resulted in 21 deaths, a marked increase when compared to the same time frame in 2023 which had 11 deadly crashes resulting in 12 fatalities.

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