A man died early Sunday morning after police say he crashed into a tree in southeast Salem.
Salem Police Department patrol officers responded to a single-car crash around 6 a.m. Sunday in the 5700 block of Gaffin Road southeast, according to a Sunday news release.
Police believe the driver of a mid-size SUV was driving eastbound on Gaffin Road and “could not negotiate a slight bend in that portion of the road,” the news release said.
The car then went off the road and hit a tree. Fire personnel pronounced the driver, Salomon Leyva-Ramirez, 23, dead at the scene. He was the only person in the car.
The Salem Police Traffic Team is investigating the incident.
-Ardeshir Tabrizian
