Boy riding E-scooter critically injured, in Mill Park crosswalk

AFTERMATH VIDEO INCLUDED | Here’s what’s been revealed about this tragic outer East Portland collision between a car and a 9-year-old boy – who was reportedly riding his electric scooter in a marked, signalized crosswalk …

When a boy is seriously injured in a crash in the Mill Park neighborhood, the Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division’s Major Crash Team arrives to investigate in the middle of SE 122nd Avenue.

Story and photos by David F. Ashton

Helping pedestrians, and those on wheels, safely cross major thoroughfares in outer East Portland has been the reason the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has installed numerous pedestrian crossings – that include pavement marking, a pedestrian “island”, and “winky-blink” (“hawk”) traffic signals.

In fact, PBOT installed or restriped 2,084 crosswalks and upgraded 98 deficient crossings to city standards between 2019 and 2022, the the most recent numbers available.

Despite these efforts, a 9-year-old boy was being critically injured on SE 122nd Avenue, at the Lincoln Street crosswalk, on Wednesday evening, September 24.

See the aftermath and watch the investigation of this serious outer East Portland crash:

Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct officers, dispatched to this injury accident at 7:38 p.m., found the youth lying on SE 122nd Avenue, about 30 feet north of the crosswalk.

A total of 21 officers and investigators gathered at the scene.

Police investigators talk with a woman, the vehicle’s driver, a witness, or another somehow involved, at the spot where the Nissan came to a stop in the northbound lanes.

After being struck by the Nissan, some part of the injured boy’s body impacted the vehicle’s windshield.

Because the boy was taken to a local hospital by ambulance with critical, life-threatening injuries, officers called in the PPB Traffic Division’s Major Crash Team to investigate and document the scene.

A witness, who said she was coming out of the Stop-N-Go Convenience Store at the intersection and saw the crash told East Portland News, “I’m sure the ‘blinky lights’ were flashing as the kid was crossing the street,” Toneeshia Grant stated. “It looked like maybe the driver of the car just ignored the signal, didn’t see the kid, or [maybe] was texting or something else,” she speculated.

The boy’s broken “ETEKHOP” scooter lies on the pedestrian island after the crash.

It looks as if the scooter impacted the Nissan on the front driver’s-side of the car.

After the crash, the PPB’s Major Crash Team investigators detailed that the boy had been riding an electric scooter, and that there was a collision involving a Nissan Versa SV, a subcompact sedan.

“The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation,” a PPB spokesperson said. At this time it is unclear whether any citations have been, or will be, issued in the incident.

Into the night, the investigation continues. Here a Major Crash Team member operates their FARO digital crash reconstruction camera to gather data for the official report.

If you have information about this crash and has not spoken to police, email crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, attn: Traffic Investigations Unit, and refer to Case No. 25-263972.

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