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Regarding how long the vehicle was there at the crash scene... According to the Oregon State Police authorities responded to the crash scene at approximately 5:30 pm. Oregon Highway 62 (Crater Lake Highway) maintained by Oregon Department of Transportation is classified as a Statewide Expressway, serving north-south access through Medford, linking the city with destinations to the north and east. The Highway 62/I-5 interchange is a critical connection for the I-5 corridor. (From Medford Transportation System Plan pages 3.3, 3.2) Highway 62 has a high volume of traffic as well as a high volume of vehicle crashes and there have been many crashes in the same area as Matthew's crashed vehicle was discovered. From the photos of the crash scene it appears that Matthew's vehicle is visible from the highway. Here in Oregon it is still daylight at 5:30 pm... It just seems to this writer that given the high volume of traffic during daylight hours any crash visible to passers-by would've been reported soon after the crash and had Matthew's vehicle crashed during the night then it would've been reported soon after daylight made the crash visible to passers-by and that it wouldn't have taken all day for someone to report the crash.
From the aerial photo of Highway 62 (Crater Lake Highway) with the three yellow pins: One pin is labeled "car found" and one pin is labeled "sign" and the third pin is a distance away labeled "MM 37" depicting the Mile Marker. Highway 62 is technically an east-west highway (even numbered) therefore traveling directionally north (towards Bend direction) is appropriate. However, traveling directionally north in the northbound lane is impossible. The photo depicting where the vehicle tires first left the roadway shows the vehicle leaving the road on the left (driver's) side of the road indicating that the vehicle had crossed the oncoming lane and then left the road. It appears to this writer that the vehicle was traveling directionally north (away from the Medford area/ towards the Bend area) and crossed Peyton Bridge then veered off the road and crashed on the first corner past Peyton Bridge. It is approximately two hours driving from Bend to the crash scene. Matthew is said to have departed Bend between approximately 7 - 8 pm the night before his vehicle was discovered crashed the next day at approximately 5:30 pm which leaves about a 21-ish hour window of time or less depending on what time the crash was reported and how soon after the crash that the crash was reported. Regardless of what transpired during the time that Matthew and his vehicle were unaccounted for the vehicle was traveling away from Medford area north towards Bend area so it seems that the vehicle was returning from whence it came after having traveled at least to beyond the site where the vehicle crashed.
Lost Creek Lake is directly down hill from the crash site and very close.
Matthews body was found by SAR Tuesday afternoon according to his mother. She said she won’t give more details because Matthew was a very private person and because there is still a Major Crimes investigation going on. She praised the detective for being kind, sincere and a true man of integrity.
Heartbreaking.
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