CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (Jan. 20, 2026) — A Grants Pass man was killed Saturday evening in a three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Highway 140 and High Banks Road in Jackson County, Oregon State Police said.
Troopers responded at about 5:46 p.m. to the crash, which began when a Cadillac Escalade driven by Michael Bryan Dickerson, 74, of Grants Pass, was traveling north on High Banks Road and entered Highway 140, where it was struck by a Ford Escape driven by a 16-year-old girl from Central Point, police said.
About five minutes later, an eastbound Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle operated by Jeremy Bruno Fantechi, 27, of Grants Pass, struck the Cadillac at a reported high rate of speed, according to investigators.
Fantechi was pronounced dead at the scene. Dickerson and the teenage driver were not injured.
The highway was impacted for about four hours during the investigation. Oregon State Police were assisted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Jackson County Fire District 3 and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
The crash is being investigated by the Oregon State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit, which handles fatal and critical injury crashes statewide.
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