BAKER CITY , Ore. -- Oregon State Police have released the names of those involved in a deadly rollover crash on Interstate 84 near Baker City, Oregon, Thursday morning.
The van carrying 16 people from a Colorado church was westbound around 5:20 a.m. when it slid of the icy highway, rolled several times and landed on its top.
Police say the 2002 Ford F-350 van was driven by Nicole Elaine Byrd, 25, from Federal Heights, Colorado.
The van is registered to New Life Worship Center in Federal Heights, Colo., and is affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Masters Commission.
The group was en route to Portland, Oregon, for a conference to raise funds for the commission's discipleship program.
Thirteen of the 16 people onboard are believed to have been ejected from the van. All occupants were transported to hospitals in La Grande, Baker City and Boise, Idaho. The majority of injured have since been treated and released.
Survivors say they're trying to come to grips with their loss.
Eighteen-year-old Sarah DeVries tells The Baker City Herald that she's still "waiting for this to be a dream."
Two passengers, Joshua John Pischura, 20, from Geneva, Ohio and Taune Nicole Winter Pepper, 23, from Deer Trail, Colo., died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Byrd was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Services Hospital in Baker City and released following treatment.
Five passengers are still in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. They are: Aaron Stearling Werntz, 19, from Freeport, Ill., Christine Sandra Aki, 18, from Golden, Colo., Phillip Joel Harris, 24, from Attalla, Ala., Katherine Elizabeth Darlene Pischura, 18, from Geneva, Ohio, and William Chris Rodgers, 22, from Lakewood, Colo.
Werntz and Harris are in criticial condition.
Oregon State Police said Friday it may be several weeks before investigators complete their report on the crash.
