BEND, OR -- Investigators have identified the two people killed Friday in a crash on Knott Road. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, 64-year old Bobby Jones, of Gilchrist, was eastbound and tried to pass a truck on a solid double-yellow centerline. He almost collided with a westbound pickup, and when he returned to his lane, his SUV clipped the truck, drove off the road and hit a tree.
Jones and his wife, 61-year-old Tami, both died at the scene. A backseat passenger went to the hospital with serious injuries.