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2nd person dies in eastern Oregon van rollover

Associated Press

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 7:10 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police say a second passenger has died from injuries after a van carrying 16 mostly college-age members of a Colorado church overturned on black ice early Thursday in eastern Oregon.

Police say most of the passengers were ejected when the van rolled several times on Interstate 84 near Baker City.

Twenty-year-old Joshua John Pischura of Geneva, Ohio, died shortly after the crash, while 23-year-old Taune Nicole Winter Pepper of Deer Trail, Colo., died late Thursday.

Pepper was one of six passengers flown to an Idaho hospital with life-threatening injuries. Others were transported to hospitals in La Grande and Baker City.

The van was carrying members of the Rocky Mountain Masters Commission, a training program affiliated with the New Life Worship Center in Federal Heights, Colo. Center spokeswoman Christy Gimer says it was headed to a conference in Portland.

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