OR Brothers ID’d After Killed Friday On Way To Facebook Prineville Data Center Construction Site

BEND, OR. (THECOUNT) — Joshua Eckstein, and his passenger, Jacob Eckstein, have been identified as the young men killed on their way to work at Facebook Prineville Data Center Friday.

Taylor NW employees, Joshua, 19, and 21-year-old Jacob, were traveling near in a vehicle near Powell Butte onroute to a construction site at Facebook’s Prineville Data Center when they killed early Friday morning, say officials.

Joshua was operating a pickup truck traveling on Powell Butte Highway, when for unknown reasons crossed centerlines, exited the roadway and rolled over before colliding with a sizeable juniper tree, authorities said.

Crook County sheriff’s deputies were called to reports of a single-vehicle rollover crash shortly before 6 a.m. near Alfalfa Road in Powell Butte, Sgt. Jake Childers said.

Upon arrival, officials found an overturned Toyota Tundra that had come to a rest after colliding with a tree. The impact crushed the cab, Childers said.

Officials say Ice may have played a factor in the crash.

Childers confirmed that the brothers were employed with Taylor NW and were heading to work at the Facebook site in Prineville.

Evidence at the crash scene and a witness account indicated the pickup was heading east toward Prineville when the driver lost control, veered into the oncoming lane, then overcorrected and began sliding sideways, crossing the eastbound lane and onto the soft shoulder, Childers said. It then rolled onto its side and slid farther until it hit the tree, reports KTVZ.

The crash remains under investigation.

Geo quick facts: Powell Butte is an unincorporated community in Crook County, Oregon, United States, and named after the nearby Powell Buttes. It is on Oregon Route 126 west of Prineville and east of Redmond. Powell Butte post office was established in 1909 – Wikipedia.

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