April 20, 2022 4:20 p.m.  (updated April 21 4:00 a.m.)

The driver was cited, after a pickup hit an Oregon State Police patrol vehicle on Tuesday.

Information from OSP said at about 6:30 p.m. a trooper was investigating a non-injury crash involving a commercial motor vehicle on Interstate Five about a mile and a half south of the Drain/Yoncalla interchange. While the trooper was outside his patrol car, the other vehicle, which was traveling a freeway speeds, hit the back end of the patrol car, pushing it into the CMV. The pickup overturned and ended up in the slow lane of the freeway.

A report from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said the driver of the pickup claimed he was tired and in a tunnel vision state of mind, which caused the crash. The driver was cited for careless driving and for failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.

Both the pickup and the OPS vehicle appeared to be totaled and had to be towed from the scene.

Oregon law requires drivers to move over into anther lane and give space to emergency vehicles which are stopped on the roadside with their emergency lights activated.