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A person was killed and another flown to St. Charles Bend with life-threatening injuries early Thursday after a driver reportedly ran a stop sign on U.S. Highway 97 between Sunriver and La Pine, Oregon State Police said in a news release.

Seaside resident Robert Owens, 56, was pronounced dead around 1:05 a.m. at the scene of the wreck.

According to the preliminary investigation by OSP, Owens was the passenger in a Dodge Caravan driven by Sherri Wood of Lyons, who police say entered the highway at Vandervert Road without stopping.

Wood, 46, struck the driver’s side of a commercial vehicle heading north. The commercial vehicle caught fire and burned “beyond recognition,” OSP said.

Wood was transported to the hospital, while the driver of the commercial vehicle, Abelardo Elenes Higuera of Bakersfield, California, escaped uninjured.