3-Car Crash Claims 3 Dutchmen

NEWBERG, OR — Three employees of a Dutch tech company who all arrived in the United States the weekend before last have died following a three-car crash in North Marion County last Thursday.

Timotheus Albers, 37, was killed in the crash, while Jamie Shennan, 22, and driver Ronald Wall, 25, succumbed to their injuries days later, according to Marion County Sheriff's officials.

The crash occurred around 2:45 p.m. June 7 on McKay Road Northeast, a rural countryside road that runs parallel to the Willamette River between Case Road Northeast and Highway 219, just south of Newberg.

Moments before the fatal collision, 23-year-old Clackamas resident Jose Castilla-Castilla had stopped in the westbound lane on McKay Road NE to make a left turn into a field, investigators said. Stopped directly behind Castilla-Castilla were Wall, Shennan, and Albers.

A Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup that was also heading west did not stop and reportedly barreled into the rear of Wall's vehicle, which in turn pushed forward to hit Castilla-Castilla.

Castilla-Castilla and the Ford's driver, 27-year-old Paul Leyva of Wilsonville, were both taken to hospital by ambulance, while a LifeFlight helicopter took Shennan and Wall to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Albers died at the scene, officials said.

Marion County Sheriff's officials on Monday announced the deaths of Wall and Shennan.

Images via Marion County Sheriff's Office