Deadly Division Street temporarily tamed with hay bales and homemade signs
Volunteer activists take Division’s dangers into their own hands.
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Nine bereaved family members pen open letter to City Council demanding action on Division Street
“We call on the City of Portland to expedite major changes in order to slow speeds and increase safety for all on outer SE Division St.”
As traffic deaths spike, ‘Remembrance Day’ reminds us of human toll
Survivors group demands change on World Day of Remembrance.
Most of those new traffic victim memorials will be gone soon: Here’s why
Unpermitted memorials on state highways can be a safety hazard, ODOT says.
‘Families for Safe Streets’ to launch Sunday on national day of remembrance
A new organization for people whose lives have been changed by traffic violence will hold its first public event this weekend.
Local traffic victims’ families will band together to form new voice for safety
Victims and family members of life-changing traffic collisions are invited to join.
New website is latest effort from mother of hit-and-run victim
Screenshot of FacesofFatalities.com. A bereaved mother whose 28-year-old son was killed by a drunk driver two years ago while biking on SE Division, has launched a website. Faces of Fatalities: Resources for Hit and Run Victims and Their Families is the work of Kristi Finney-Dunn. Since her son Dustin died in August 2011, Finney-Dunn has … Read more
Reader Story: What the Ride of Silence means to this mom
[This story was submitted by Kristi Finney, who became a traffic safety activist after her son Dustin was killed by a hit-and-run driver while bicycling in Portland last August.] Less than a year ago I’d never heard of the Ride of Silence. I don’t remember how I found out about the website but I came … Read more
Spurred by tragedy, Kristi Finney dedicates herself to activism
Kristi Finney (center right) has turned grief into action after losing her son to a drunk driver last August.(Photos © J. Maus) The mother of a young man killed by a drunk driver while bicycling on SE Division last year has become a dedicated traffic safety activist. Since the death of her son Dustin on … Read more
Five year prison sentence handed down in hit and run that killed Dustin Finney
Go inside the courtroom as Finney’s grieving mother stared down the man who hit her son.