Find out what police revealed about the victim and the vehicle involved in this fatal outer East Portland smashup …
A Portland Police Bureau East Precinct sergeant secures the crash scene on NE Halsey Street in Hazelwood after an electric motorcycle T‑bones a Jeep Wrangler, leaving the rider mortally injured.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
A man operating an electric motorcycle died after colliding with a Jeep Wrangler on NE Halsey Street near 111th Avenue in the Hazelwood neighborhood on Tuesday evening, May 26, 2026, according to Portland Police Bureau officials.
Dispatch records listed the incident as a “Motor Vehicle Accident with Injury,” logged as Incident No. 26-152558, at 6:34 p.m. Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct officers responded to reports of a crash involving an electric bicycle and a vehicle, as did an ambulance and Portland Fire & Rescue paramedics.
Medical crews transported the rider to an area hospital, where the bicyclist later died, police reported. The driver of the Jeep remained at the scene and cooperated with officers.
Officers look inside the back of a partially open ambulance to check on the severely injured cycle rider.
The PPB Major Crash Team responded to investigate. During the on-scene investigation, one-way eastbound Halsey Street was closed between NE 111th and 113th Avenues.
Two days later, on May 28, PPB officials identified the dead rider as 40-year-old Jered W. Nelson of Portland. Investigators further clarified that Nelson had been operating an electric motorcycle, not an electric bicycle, as initially reported.
The Portland Police Bureau Major Crash Team responds to investigate the fatal collision on NE Halsey Street in the Hazelwood neighborhood.
According to the PPB’s preliminary investigation, the driver of a Jeep Wrangler had been traveling eastbound on NE Halsey Street and turned into a parking lot. Nelson, operating the electric motorcycle, ran into the passenger side of the Jeep. Investigators reported that Nelson was not wearing a helmet. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The crash is still under investigation, and detectives continue to examine whether impairment contributed to the incident. At the time of the Bureau’s latest public update, there was no indication the Jeep driver was impaired.
Anyone who had information about this crash and had not yet spoken with investigators was asked to e-mail crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov with “Attn: TIU” in the subject line, and to reference Case No. 152558.
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