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[Publisher’s Note: Normally I wouldn’t report this story. Traffic collisions happen every day and sometimes they involve a person on a bike. I don’t consider them newsworthy simply because a bicycle is involved. In this case, I decided to publish more information about this collision because of questions some readers had following a minor mention of it in The Oregonian on Saturday. — Jonathan]
A minor collision at the intersection of NW Broadway and Glisan sent a woman to the hospital on Saturday morning.
We have learned from the Portland Police Bureau that 50-year-old Alan Moditz from Ridgefield, Washington was driving a four-door Hyundai southbound on NW Broadway when a collision occurred with a bicycle being ridden by 37-year old Megan Neuman from southeast Portland.
The PPB tells us that Neuman was bicycling west on Glisan and that she made contact with the driver’s side front fender of Moditz’s vehicle. An email from the PPB said that Neuman, “was down in the street when police and medical arrived,” and that she was, “wearing a helmet but it flew off during the crash.” She was transported to a hospital with “no apparent serious injuries.”
There were no witnesses and no citations issued. PPB says both parties believed they had the green light.