Portland Crashes Increasing

Crashes are ramping up in Portland. Portland is a city with high car crash stats and only getting worse; from pedestrians killed in hit and runs to drunken drivers. While on scene of an unrelated crash, a female crashed into the back of a parked and occupied police vehicle. The Officer was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. The female was arrested for suspicion of driving while impaired by drugs. PPB East Precinct tweeted. The woman was arrested for suspicion of driving while impaired by drugs, police said.

Another crash; two people are in the hospital after a wrong-way driver crashed head-on with a semi-truck along Interstate 5 northbound in Portland’s Terwilliger curves early Monday morning. “Alcohol intoxication may have been a factor,” according to Portland Police. The Toyota’s driver and a passenger were pinned inside the vehicle. Portland Fire & Rescue and AMR paramedics helped pull them from the vehicle; they were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive their injuries. A police spokesperson said the semi-truck driver was “shaken up” but was not hurt.

Two pedestrians were hit and killed in separate crashes in Portland over a 10-hour span from Wednesday night to Thursday morning, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported. At 5:54 a.m. Thursday, a pedestrian was hit and killed on the on-ramp to Interstate 205 at Northeast Glisan Street. Wednesday, a pedestrian was struck by a hit-and-run driver in North Portland on North Denver Avenue just south of the Interstate 5 overpass. The victim was taken to the hospital before being pronounced dead. PPB didn’t share any suspect or suspect vehicle information.

Police said they cited a 23-year-old Idaho woman for drunken and reckless driving after she drove at least three miles in the wrong direction Monday morning on Interstate 5 and crashed head-on with a tractor-trailer, trapping both her and her passenger in her car. Portland firefighters and paramedics extracted.