State police: Oregon senator’s wife killed in crash

Published 1:30 am Sunday, April 16, 2017

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal crash that killed the wife of a state senator.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that a semi-truck hauling a box trailer was unable to avoid Leta Baertschiger, 54, while she was out walking in the right lane of I-5 near Grants Pass.

Baertschiger is the wife of Herman Baertschiger, a Republican state senator from southern Oregon.

State police are unsure why the woman was walking along the interstate.

Baertschiger is survived by her husband and two sons.