A Grants Pass woman died after driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 and crashing head-on into a commercial truck near milepost 62 in Josephine County.

Oregon State Police responded to the crash at 2:04 a.m. Saturday.

A preliminary investigation showed a Chevrolet S10, driven by Annette Dea Dimmick, 34, was traveling south in the northbound lanes.

Dimmick struck a northbound Volvo commercial truck driven by David Michael Jellison, 68, of Alliance, Ohio.

Dimmick was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jellison and his passenger, Ceejay Clay, 29, of Warren, Ohio, suffered minor injuries and were taken to a hospital.

The highway was closed for approximately four hours during the investigation.

This story was drafted with the assistance of generative AI based on data from Oregon State Police

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