[L-R] Angela Svendsen and Kjersten Oquist
Last year – February 12th, 2007 – musicians Angela Svendsen, Kjersten Oquist, and Kelly Gronli were returning to Portland from a concert with the Eugene Symphony. Two of the three, Angela and Kjersten, never made it back to Portland alive, their lives ended in a head on collision with a drunk driver who was driving south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5. Kelly Gronli somehow survived with relatively minor injuries.