BAKER CITY — A Pendleton man died in a wrong-way freeway crash Sunday when his car struck two semi-trucks, hitting one head-on, after he exited the Baker Valley Rest Area driving west in the eastbound lanes.

Joseph Alan Sizemore, 32, died at the scene, an Oregon State Police press report stated. OSP was dispatched to the crash at 9:44 p.m. Sunday.

Sizemore’s 2012 Ford Focus first sideswiped a semitractor-trailer and then struck a second semi head-on, police said. Sizemore apparently left the Baker Valley Rest Area, about 10 miles north of Baker City, and drove onto the off-ramp and into the eastbound traffic, police said.

North Powder Fire Department volunteers were first on the scene and found Sizemore dead in the driver’s seat of his car. He was traveling alone, police said.

The trucks were driven by Jonathan M. Lawrence, 26, of Hammond, Indiana; and Isaac Jermaine Pitts, 34, of Hahira, Georgia. Dorian Raymond Temple, 22, of Jacksonville, Florida, was a passenger in one of the trucks. The Baker City ambulance transported one person to St. Alphonsus Medical Center after the crash. No other details were available in time for this report.

Both trucks were towed from the scene. The eastbound freeway was closed at La Grande for several hours Sunday night during the cleanup and investigation.

The investigation is ongoing.