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September 2005 > 09/06/05
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Teen killed in rollover accident early Sunday morningMOLALLA, Ore. - The Clackamas County Criminal Reconstruction
and Forensic Team is investigating a single-vehicle rollover accident which
resulted in the death of a 16 year-old Molalla girl on Sunday just after
1:00 a.m.
Clackamas County Sheriff's deputies and Molalla Fire personnel
were dispatched to a single-vehicle, rollover crash on S. Mt. Hope Rd. approximately
1 mile west of Hwy 213 at 1:07 a.m., after one of the passengers in the
vehicle called 911 using a cellular phone.
The vehicle, a 1991 Toyota 4-Runner was rolled over on its
top in a field off the roadway. Preliminary investigation indicates that
the vehicle was traveling westbound on S. Mt. Hope Rd. when the driver lost
control of the vehicle and rolled over several times.
A passenger in a rear seat of the vehicle, Tierney Gross,
16, of Molalla, was ejected from the vehicle at the time of the impact and
was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the vehicle, Dannelle Marie Giese, 18, of Molalla
was taken by LifeFlight to Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital for
treatment.
Anabel Maldano, 17, of Molalla, a passenger in the vehicle,
was transported by ambulance to Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital
for treatment.
Kathryn Elizabeth Leep, 18, of Molalla, a passenger in the
vehicle, was transported by ambulance to Silverton Hospital for treatment.
It appears that all the occupants of the vehicle were wearing
a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The cause of the crash is under investigation and no
arrests have been made nor citations issued at this time.
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