Holiday weekend claims eight lives in eight accidents.

Byline: Jim Murez The Register-Guard

Eight people had died on Oregon roads as of late Tuesday on the July 4 extended weekend, equaling the number of deaths over the three-day weekend last year, according to the Oregon State Police.

The eight fatalities as of 10 p.m. had happened in eight separate accidents. None happened in Lane County and no fatalities had been reported on the Fourth of July.

The latest accident was Monday evening, when a Stayton woman died in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 22E near Detroit Lake. Three women in the other vehicle were injured, one critically.

Dana Orr, 34, died in the accident about 7:30 p.m. when her car slid into the eastbound lane and was broadsided. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Highway 22E was closed for about one hour.

A Tacoma resident died Sunday at a Portland area hospital from injuries sustained in a crash on Interstate 84 about nine miles east of La Grande. The victim's 15-year-old brother was driving and had minor injuries, state police said. Yevgeniy Klishta, 21, was ejected when the pickup truck rolled several times about 4 a.m. and died that afternoon.

Six people had died Friday evening through midday Sunday. One died Friday night near McMinnville in a head-on collision. Three died Saturday in wrecks in Marion County, Gresham and on Interstate 5 near Medford.

On Sunday, a bicyclist hit by a car in Klamath Falls died and a Corvallis man was killed when his car rolled on Highway 99W northwest of Salem, state police said.

Last year, eight people died in seven separate fatal crashes.