SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Labor Day holiday weekend claimed only one life on Oregon highways this year.
The Oregon State Police said it was just the third time in 40 years that only one person was killed in a traffic accident over the holiday.
Troopers told the Statesman Journal that an average of seven people die each year during the extended weekend, making it the second- deadliest holiday of the year on the road.
The lone fatality this year was early Sunday, when a 20-year-old Forest Grove man was hit by a car on Tualatin Valley Highway west of Portland.
