Pedestrian seriously injured in Centennial neighborhood crash

Here’s what’s been learned about the outer East Portland accident that caused life-threatening injuries this week …

Officers close down SE Division Street in the Centennial neighborhood when a pedestrian is struck by a truck.

Story and photos by David F. Ashton

A Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct officer was patrolling the Centennial neighborhood district along SE Division Street near 157th Avenue on Tuesday evening, April 9 – and happened to come across a crash that’d had just taken place at 10:45 p.m., a block east, near the intersection of SE 158th Avenue.

Additional officers were dispatched, as was a crew from Portland Fire & Rescue and an ambulance.

With the crash victim inside, the ambulance heads for a nearby hospital.

“The collision was between a pedestrian and pickup truck,” a PPB spokesperson told East Portland News, without providing further details. “The pedestrian was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.”

The driver of the responsible pickup truck remained at the scene.

The PPB Major Crash Team comes to investigate this crash.

Due to the seriousness of the injuries – at the time, thought to perhaps prove fatal – the PPB Major Crash Team was called in to investigate. At that time, SE Division Street was shut down to both motor and non-motorized traffic between SE 157th and 160th Avenues.

We have as yet received no further information about the condition of the struck pedestrian.
If you have information about this incident, please contact crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, attention Traffic Investigations Unit, and reference Case No. 24-86510.

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