LONG CREEK — The 18-year-old son of a man involved in a fatal incident involving a Ford F-350 pickup last year was himself the victim of a fatal crash last weekend in the same vehicle, Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley said.

Oregon State Police responded to a fatal single-vehicle crash on Highway 395 North near milepost 88B, two miles north of Long Creek, on Saturday, July 15.

Daniel Caleb Crist, 18, of Long Creek, was driving south on the highway in a 1999 Ford F-350 when it traveled onto the shoulder. Crist apparently lost control of the truck, which crossed into the northbound lane and then back across the southbound lane before rolling off the shoulder, according to the Oregon State Police.

Crist did not appear to be wearing a seat belt and was declared deceased at the scene, officials said. The roadway was not closed during the on-scene investigation, officials said.

OSP was assisted by the Long Creek Fire Department, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon Department of Transportation.

The news comes a little more than a year after search crews found the body of a missing Long Creek man on June 8, 2022, near a side road off Highway 395 in a remote area east of Belshaw Meadows, between Mt. Vernon and Long Creek. Marvin C. Crist, 74, was last seen on May 30, 2022, checking out of a motel in La Grande, according to a press release issued by the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

Ground search team members located Crist near his vehicle, which had apparently gotten stuck, McKinley said. Crist had fallen and became incapacitated after exiting the vehicle and died of exposure to cold weather, according to the sheriff.