Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 26, 2020
Highway accident takes two lives
Two
people—a
Warm Springs woman,
and a 5-year-old girl—
were killed in a three-
vehicle accident Friday
evening on Highway 26.
A 10-year-old boy
was seriously injured in
the crash, according to
Warm Springs Police.
Police and Fire and
Warm Springs Fire and
Safety
responded
around 7:30 p.m., Au-
gust 21 to the accident,
near milepost 81.
They found a 2019
Nissan Sentra in the
middle of the road with
severe front-end dam-
age. A 2018 Ford Edge
Courtesy Chris Dimmick
Scene of accident with SUV in flames.
had flipped onto its top, po-
lice said.
A third vehicle, a 2005
Chevy Suburban, was in
flames on the highway.
The driver of the Nissan,
a Warm Springs resident,
and one of her passengers,
the 5-year-old girl, died at the
scene, police said.
Also in the Nissan, the
10-year-old boy was taken to
St. Charles Madras, then
flown in serious condition to
a Portland-area hospital.
Oregon State Police
are doing a crash recon-
struction. Warm Springs
Police gave the following
statement:
“Due to the increase in
the amount of traffic on
the roadways during the
summer months—and
the number of recent
motor vehicle crashes in
and around the Warm
Springs Reservation—the
Warm Springs Tribal Po-
lice are enhancing traffic
enforcement by increas-
ing traffic patrols, and is-
suing more citations for
speeding and unsafe driv-
ing.”
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Off rez hunting
The Confederated Tribes have adopted the off-
reservation hunting seasons and regulations. Cur-
rent Seasons for off-reservation are:
Pronghorn antelope: Now through October 31.
Archery, deer and elk: Through October 2.
Off reservation buck and deer, rifle: September
through October 31.
Early elk, cow and spike: September 1 through
October 16.
Bull elk: October 17 through November 30.
Late elk, cow and spike: December 1 through
January 31, 2021.
Bighorn sheep hunts: September 1 through No-
vember 30.
John Day Canyon mule deer buck: November 1
through November 29.
John Day Middle Fork white-tail hunt: October
3 through November 30.
For assistance you can email:
wildlife.tags@ctwsbnr.org
Or call 541-553-2001 during business hours.
Safety corridor project
moved to next year
The long-planned Warm
Springs Highway 26 safety
corridor project is scheduled
to go to bid in the fall, with
construction in early 2021.
The project was sched-
uled for completion this
year, but the Oregon De-
partment of Transportation
has moved the project to
next year.
The project will include
repaving the highway; plus
construction of a multi-use
path from the Shell station
to the Museum at Warm
Springs-Indian Head Casino
area.
The paving aspect will be
from the Kah-Nee-Ta junc-
tion intersection to the mu-
seum area.
A focus of the project is
pedestrian safety.
The highway from Hol-
lywood Boulevard to the
museum can be hazardous
for people walking or riding
a bike. The pathway along
the side of the highway will
help address the problem.
Dave McMechan