A Vancouver man was identified Saturday as the victim of a fatal crash along Interstate 5 in Portland.
Keith O. Poppert, 61, died in the Thursday evening crash, which was blamed on wet roads and soaking rain.
The accident occurred at 7:51 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the freeway just north of the Fremont Bridge. Portland police said Poppert was driving a Ford pickup north on Interstate 405, merging onto I-5 north. His truck hit a pool of water measuring up to 4 inches deep.
The pickup swerved to the right, hit the outside jersey barrier, then slid toward the center lane of I-5 northbound. The pick-up was hit, broadside, by a Kenworth tractor-trailer, and briefly pushed north along the freeway.
