A 64-year-old Port Orford man died Monday, Jan. 12, after the pickup truck he was driving on Highway 58 it rolled into a ditch, ejecting him, Oregon State Police said.

Aaron Henry Longton died after being taken by medics to a hospital.

State police responded at 8:57 a.m. to the scene of the single-vehicle crash at milepost 40, about 4 miles east of Oakridge.

Longton was driving a Ford F-250 east when it rolled into a ditch, police said. No one else was in the truck.

On its Facebook page, the Port of Port Orford remembered Longton as a champion of the area’s fishing community, helping with a marketplace known as Port Orford Sustainable Seafood, which connected small-boat harvesters to consumers.

“Aaron believed deeply in this place and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen our working waterfront. From helping build Port Orford Sustainable Seafood to standing up for small-boat fishermen, his passion and leadership left a lasting mark on our Port and far beyond it,” the port posted.

Port Orford is about 100 miles south of Florence.