Note: I'm currently on a family trip and not working normal hours. Email and message responses will be delayed and story and posting volumes here and on our social media accounts will not be at their usual levels until I return to Portland September 4th. Thanks for your patience and understanding. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
Richard Krebs’ bike rests under the wheel of a TriMet bus after the collision on August 12th.(Photo: Bill Jackson) TriMet has released an update on the investigation of a collision involving a bus and a bike in downtown Portland on August 12th. TriMet Communications Director Mary Fetsch says that following a review by the Portland … Read more
View of SE 50th and Hawthorne. Truck was pointed west and coming out of eastern most intersection. There was a crash at around 7:00 am this morning at SE Hawthorne and 50th involving a woman on a bike and a garbage truck. The truck operator was headed west on Hawthorne when the collision occurred. This … Read more
Aftermath of a collision at SE 10th cand Hawthorne yesterday.(Photos: Christopher Perez) The collision on the transit mall downtown wasn’t the only bike-involved crash yesterday. Reader Christopher Perez was the first person on the scene of a collision on SE Hawthorne about two hours before Richard Krebs was struck while crossing SW Morrison. Perez witnessed … Read more
There was a serious injury crash just north of Ladds Circle yesterday during the evening commute. At about 5:15, I started getting reports from witnesses about someone on a bike that was being tended to by emergency medical personnel. Here are photos taken at the scene by reader Robby Russell:
Traffic on the Hawthorne.(Photos © J. Maus) Traffic on the Hawthorne Bridge can be bad. And I don’t mean car traffic. Roger Geller, the city’s bicycle coordinator received an email from someone who witnessed a horrifying, nearly tragic crash on the Hawthorne Bridge during last Wednesday’s evening rush hour. The witness, who asked to remain … Read more
Asha Laura Whittle.(Photo: Asha Laura Whittle) Asha Whittle’s story could have been tragic. Judging from the nature of the collision (she and her bike were dragged across the intersection), photos taken at the scene, and comments from police and other first responders, when I first reported about her crash earlier this month, I expected that … Read more
Just noticed a strange story over on KPTV.com. On January 17th, a man was knocked off his bicycle while riding on 231st Avenue near Cornell Road (in Hillsboro) at about 2:30 pm. The police investigators say there’s “no evidence of a car”. Read more (emphasis mine): Police said they aren’t sure what knocked a man … Read more
“All I know is that she was distracted. She didn’t see him somehow, that’s all we’re being told.”— Keith Miles, Kristopher Miles’ grandfather 14-year boy Kristopher Miles clings to life this morning in a Portland trauma center, one week after 28-year old Andrea Dickinson ran him over with her SUV while he rode home in … Read more
Image of the scene.(Photo: Carl Larson) At around 5:00pm yesterday evening, there was a right-hook crash involving a bike and a truck at the intersection of Broadway and Williams in Northeast Portland (Map). According to the Police Bureau’s assistant PIO Greg Pashley, a woman riding a bicycle was struck by a “short panel truck” and … Read more
Comment of the Week: Gratitude for N/NE Broadway project