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Friends raising money to recover victim killed in Oregon crash

One B.C. resident was killed in the crash.
One B.C. resident was killed in the crash. Oregon Police

UPDATE: A fundraising page has been set-up to help recover the body of a young woman who was killed  on Friday in Oregon.

Janelle Cecilia Lawlor was en route to a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Conference in Salt Lake City, when the driver fell asleep at the wheel.

Lawlor did not have any insurance, according to her mother Lisa Lawlor. Friends of the family have set up a Go Fund Me page to help the family raise money to help her mother with the repatriation of her remains.

“I can’t wait until we get to the part where we just get to celebrate her life, have her back here and get together with all our friends and family and reminisce about her beautiful life she spent her with us,” Lawlor told Global News.

In the past seven hours, $9,500 of the $15,000 total goal has been donated.

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VANCOUVER – Oregon Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed a 20-year-old woman from Hope, B.C.

Police say at about 5:45 a.m. on Friday, a 2009 Pontiac four-door, driven by Brandon Goeders from Port Moody, B.C., was travelling eastbound on Interstate 84 near milepost 294 when it travelled on to the shoulder. Goeders said he fell asleep, then over-corrected to the right and that caused the car to roll on the pavement and off the freeway.

The young woman who died has been identified as Janelle Cecilia Lawlor from Hope.

Goeders, along with three other female passengers from B.C. were transported via ambulance to hospital in Baker City with non-life threatening injuries.

Police say all five were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.

There is no evidence drugs or alcohol were contributing factors in this crash.

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