Three contestants of the Pendleton Roundup were involved in a fatal crash Thursday evening when the car they were in rear-ended a commercial vehicle, according to Oregon State Police.
The crash was reported around 8:15 p.m. on Interstate-84 near milepost 193. Police say 20-year-old Jate Frost of Utah was driving a Volkswagen Jetta and going east when the car rear-ended a commercial vehicle hauling potatoes.
Frost was seriously injured in the crash and flown to a hospital in Washington.
Police say the right, front passenger in the Jetta, identified as 24-year-old Richard Schleicher from Oklahoma, was killed in the crash.
A third passenger, 21-year-old Jesse Hopper who was also from Oklahoma, was left with serious injures and was taken to OHSU in Portland.
The driver of the commercial vehicle, 31-year-old Ramirez Carrillo of Hermiston, was not injured in the crash.