UPDATED: Wrong-Way Elderly Driver Causes Fatal Wreck on I-5 near Grants Pass

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An 81-year-old man reportedly suffering from memory problems and reported missing/endangered caused a 4-car crash on Interstate 5 Tuesday night that killed one person and closed the northbound lanes for 2 hours, Oregon State Police reported.

The victim has been identified as a 28-year-old Eugene man.

OSP Sgt. Jeff Fitzgerald said at 11:37 p.m. the OSP Southern Command Center dispatch started receiving reports of a wrong-way driver on Interstate 5 near milepost 58 southbound in the northbound lanes. One report said the vehicle pulled over near milepost 54 before continuing southbound again. OSP troopers from the Grants Pass worksite responded in an attempt to locate the wrong way vehicle.

At approximately 11:42 p.m. a trooper saw vehicles crashed in the northbound lanes near milepost 53. Upon arriving at the scene troopers found the wrong-way vehicle and three other vehicles that had been involved in a crash.

According to OSP's investigation, a gray 1989 Toyota 4x4 pick-up driven by Malcolm Henry Armstrong, 81, from Days Creek, was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes near milepost 53 when it sideswiped a 2002 Dodge pickup driven by Nicholas King, 18, from Grants Pass. The Toyota 4x4 pickup then continued and collided with a 2007 Kia Sedona minivan operated by Scott Wesley Kemp, 41, from Escalon, Calif., before crashing head-on into a 1991 Toyota two-wheel drive pickup.

The driver of the 1991 Toyota pickup identified as Michael Brent Police (OSP corrected the last name @ 11:39 AM), 28, from Eugene, was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Armstrong was ejected from his pickup and transported to Three Rivers Community Hospital with serious injuries. Armstrong was the subject of an "attempt to locate as a missing/endangered person" due to some possible memory-related problems issued out of Jackson County.

King and Kemp were uninjured.

A passenger in King's vehicle identified as Brett L. Lewis, 17, from Grants Pass, was also uninjured.

Three other occupants in the Kia identified as Joan Bognot Kemp, 41; Kayla Amaya Kemp, 7; and, Miya Chio Kemp, 9, all from Escalon, were uninjured.

Personnel from the OSP's Grants Pass and Central Point offices, ODOT, Rural Metro Fire Department, Grants Pass Department of Public Safety, Rogue River Fire Department, AMR, Caveman Towing, Crystal Peak Towing, Bulldog Towing and Fairgrounds Towing worked on the scene.