Fatal Crash Victims ID'd As Washington Family, Prairie City Man

CRANE, OR — A two-car crash in rural Harney County Monday morning reportedly killed all eight people involved, Oregon State Police said Tuesday. Police on Wednesday released the identities of those killed.

Prairie City resident Mark Robert Rundell, 48, was reportedly driving the 1999 Toyota 4-Runner that collided head-on with the 2016 Toyota 4-Runner driven by Tacoma, Washington, resident Erika Carter Boquet, 29.

In the 4-Runner with Boquet were her children, Isabella Earlene, 11, Elisabeth Ann, 8, and Tytis Michael, 6, as well as her friend Kyla Marie Brown, 28, of Olympia, Washington, and Brown's children Arianna Marie, 10, and Xavier King Johnson, 2.

According to friends, Boquet and Brown were heading to Las Vegas for an end-of-summer trip.

A GoFundMe campaign was initiated to help Boquet's family return their bodies to Washington and to pay for funeral expenses. Created on Tuesday, the campaign by Wednesday morning had exceeded its goal of $10,000 — with more than 460 people donating nearly $23,000.

Oregon State Police troopers were dispatched around 10 a.m. Aug. 13 to the two-vehicle collision on Highway 78 near milepost 30, just south of Crane.

Investigators say the white 1999 4-Runner, occupied only by Rundell, was traveling west on Highway 78 when it veered into the oncoming lane, smashing headfirst into Boquet's silver 2016 4-Runner.

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