A 27-year-old man has been charged after a two-car crash north of Salem killed a woman and her four children Sunday evening.
OSP and emergency responders were notified of the crash at about 4:30 p.m. The crash occurred on Highway 99E and Nevada, one mile north of the city of Salem.
Troopers said the preliminary investigation indicated that the head-on crash occurred when a northbound Landrover and a southbound Buick Century were both attempting to negotiate a corner.
The driver of the Buick, 25-year-old Lisette Medrano-Perez, was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers also said Medrano-Perez's four children were in her vehicle - an 8-year-old boy, a 6-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl - and that all four children were also pronounced dead at the scene.