A 24-year-old Happy Valley woman died in a single-vehicle crash early Wednesday morning while her two young children survived with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to reports of a crash shortly before 1 a.m., near the intersection of Southeast 97th Avenue and Park Mountain Lane in unincorporated Clackamas County. The vehicle, a 2021 Jeep Compass, had gone down an embankment into a wooded area and came to rest upside down.
When authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered a witness had already rescued a 4-year-old child from the Jeep and reported another child was still trapped inside. Deputies, working alongside Clackamas Fire responders, made their way down the embankment and rescued a 1-year-old from the overturned Jeep.
The driver, identified as Mattie Lee Kelley, was found dead inside the Jeep. Both children were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the Oregon Department of Human Services was notified of the incident.
The Sheriff’s Office Criminal Reconstruction and Forensic Technicians team responded to investigate the crash. Preliminary findings suggest impairment may have been a contributing factor, according to investigators.
This story was drafted with the assistance of generative AI based on information from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and edited by Oregonian editorial staff.
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