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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Volunteer activists take Division’s dangers into their own hands.
“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.”
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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
[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
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
Go inside the courtroom as Finney’s grieving mother stared down the man who hit her son.
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