Crane Prairie crash injures two

Published 5:00 am Thursday, August 1, 2013

Two men were injured Tuesday evening in a single-vehicle crash near Crane Prairie Resort, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office believes driver Maxwell Levi Morgan, 21, of Salem, was intoxicated when he failed to negotiate a curve along Forest Road 4270. His car left the road and rolled several times, ejecting passenger Dennis Cavin Morgan, 55, of Salem.

Deputies were sent to the scene at around 7:41 p.m. and arrived to find both men with serious injuries. A helicopter carried Dennis Morgan to St. Charles Bend, while Maxwell Morgan was taken to the hospital by a La Pine Fire Department ambulance.

A pitbull found running down the road was taken to the animal emergency clinic in Bend with a leg injury.

Maxwell Morgan was cited at the hospital on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving and recklessly endangering another.

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