A choice to hop a fence to retrieve a automotive half flung onto railroad tracks after a crash value two younger males their lives, Oregon police reported.
Kaleb Banzer, 19, of Boring, and Brayden Concern, 19, of Hillsboro, died Saturday, Nov. 4, after being hit by a MAX light-rail train alongside Interstate 84 in Hillsboro, Portland police stated in a information launch.
The 2 males had been concerned in a solo crash on the freeway, police stated.
They then climbed a barrier into restricted Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon property to get better a automotive half when a practice hit and killed them, police stated.
Officers responded to the deadly crash at 9:39 p.m., police stated. The investigation closed a part of the freeway and disrupted light-rail practice schedules.
“A very difficult situation for lots of people. Loads of trauma, very graphic from what I’ve been informed, a really difficult scene to handle,” interim Police Chief Bob Day informed KATU.
Jody Golston, Concern’s aunt, informed KPTV the 2 younger males had been best friends who had just lately reconnected.
“Actually had been inseparable, they usually had been residing their finest lives at 19,” Golston stated. Concern had just lately bought his “dream automotive” whereas working as a automotive detailer, she stated.
Hillsboro is 20 miles west of downtown Portland.
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