A 42-year-old woman was killed Saturday morning after she was hit by a vehicle as she tried to cross Highway 34 near I-5.

Saturday afternoon, Oregon State Police said the ID for Mary Ann Bradford indicated that she was a resident of Klawock, Alaska. She has relatives in the St. Helens area.

Oregon State Police troopers and the Linn County Sheriff's Office want to talk with anyone who may have been at a nearby gas station and saw a disturbance involving Bradford and a man in a blue 1995 Mercury Mystique four-door displaying Nevada license 280 VTX. The vehicle may have been associated with this investigation.

OSP Sgt. Craig Flierl out of the Albany office described the events leading to her death this way:

Shortly before 6 a.m., state police troopers and Linn County deputies were dispatched to the north side of Highway 34 west of Interstate 5 to the report of an unidentified man in a blue 1995 Mercury four-door vehicle involved in a disturbance with a woman.

Five minutes later, dispatchers received the report that a pickup was involved in a pedestrian accident in the westbound lanes of Highway 34 west of Interstate 5.

Police and emergency medical technicians from the Albany Fire Department and the Tangent Fire Department arrived at the scene to find a critically injured Bradford lying in the highway. An ambulance rushed her to Samaritan Albany General Hospital. She died of her injuries about two hours later.

Witnesses told investigators that Bradford ran north from the vicinity of the Arco station on the south side of Highway 34 and into the westbound lanes of the highway, where she was struck in the left lane by a westbound 1998 Dodge Dakota pickup driven by William Blake, 68, of Lebanon.

Blake, who was wearing a seatbelt, wasn't injured.

The blue Mercury reportedly involved in the earlier confrontation wasn't at the scene when emergency responders arrived.

Anyone who witnessed the disturbance at the Chevron gas station or who has information about the blue four-door 1995 Mercury Mistique with Nevada license plate 280 VTX is asked to call OSP at (800) 452-7888.

Crews from the Oregon Department of Transportation helped with traffic control while investigators collected evidence at the scene.