Thursday, September 13, 2012

Car Attacks Building on Lancaster - Updating


Here's another one:
Let's just make this a on-going series.

Sunday, October 28th:

Drove into Quiznos
Friday, November 9th:

Drove into Pet Store
Interestingly, 3/4 - maybe 4/4 - of them are women. But we don't generalize about women drivers. Equally, we shouldn't generalize about people who bike.

Anyway, this will update as more people drive into buildings.  It may be that this happens far more often than we think.

Monday, November 19th:

Killed Self Driving into Church
And a second one:



Sunday, December 30th:
From the later story:
Police, fire and Portland General Electric crews were dispatched to a crash scene Saturday afternoon after a mid-sized U-Haul truck plowed into a storage unit on Silverton Road NE.

Witnesses said that just after 2 p.m. the truck pulled out of a Plaid Pantry parking lot and appeared to accelerate instead of brake as it crossed 47th Avenue NE.

It then hopped a curb and crashed into the storage unit — where power lines connected to the building.
How about a bridge?
March 7th - a car storage unit
March 8th - another bridge and a store!
 


April 16th - North High Student cited for DUI



June 10th - drove into shelton ditch

Merry Christmas! December 19th, 2013

From the paper:
No one was hurt Thursday when a sport utility vehicle crashed into an apartment in northeast Salem.

The driver...told Marion County sheriff’s deputies she mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal as she was attempting to park the 2002 Ford Explorer about 12:30 p.m. at the Silverpark Apartments, 3527 Silverpark Place NE. The Explorer jumped the concrete curb barrier and crashed into the living room of an apartment next to the parking space.


New Year! April 6th, 2014 - Crash into Tokyo University

This one's a little scary: 14th Street is a good north-south route for bicycling. About 10pm the driver was going north, crossed the road to the left, and ended up on the west side of the street. She must have been speeding in addition to being alcohol-impaired. Note the SJ language, though! "the driver crashed into a building." It's not the agent-less autonomous car that crashed; it's the driver who crashed! Nice job.

April 19th

Here's a crash into a home on Center Street.


April 29th - another bridge

On Riverside Drive:

August 18th - a fire station!

August 13th crash into Fire Station 11 on Orchard Heights
From the story:
The tracks are the least of the department's worries, though, since the car that left them also crashed into the front of the building, and into the exterior portion of its museum room, said Deputy Chief Greg Hadley.

The crash occurred around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13. The vehicle, headed west up the hill on Orchard Heights left the roadway, drove over the island between lanes, through the landscaping and into the building.
This is right across the street from a cluster of schools! And Orchard Heights is pretty wide and zoomy here.

October 6th


December 4th

December 8th

Driver: No license, no insurance

February 10th, 2015

Crashed into Tree and Fence

February, 24th

April 3rd


July 18th


August 20th

Here's a good one. Maybe it's a medical issue, but still...
Here's another view.


August 26th
September 29th

Those RR overpasses again!
November 3rd
November 19th

Here's a good one!
Christmas Eve, 2015!
April 29th, 2016
That's near Summer and Hoyt, apparently. Drivers often seem to take the hills on Hoyt too quickly, so it will not be surprising to learn that speed might have been an issue.

May 2nd

This one's not in Salem, but the image is quite striking.
May 16th

This one's icky.

From the paper:
A Salem man was cited for harassment, DUI and reckless driving after crashing and rolling his car near Commercial Street SE and Wilstey Road SE Sunday evening.

Timothy Keju, 25, was cited and released from Salem Hospital after Sunday's crash, Salem Police Lt. Dave Okada said.

Michelle Haines, of Salem, said she saw Keju pull up alongside her 5-year-old daughter, who was riding her tricycle outside their South Salem home. Haines' husband approached Keju's car and confronted him, according to Salem police.

Haines said as she dialed 911, Keju drove away, doubled back, spotted her on the phone and sped off. A few moments later, she and her husband heard a crash.
May 27th

Into the 7-11!
This is nuts:
The driver, Cindy Rojas Ortega, 22, was cited for driving without a license and her passenger, Johana Gomez Ortega, 27, of Keizer, was issued a traffic citation for providing a vehicle to an unlicensed driver.

Keizer Police Deputy Chief Jeffrey Kuhns said Gomez Ortega was unable to tell Rojas Ortega, who is deaf, how to stop the vehicle. It was Rojas Ortega's first time behind the wheel.
October 14th

via Twitter
Looks likes somebody tried to drive into Table Five08 on State Street on Friday night.

November 28th

via Twitter
From the paper:
A Gervais man driving an SUV was killed early Monday morning in Salem after his vehicle left the road and struck a tree, police said.

Police responded to reports of a crash involving a maroon 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer shortly after 1:30 a.m. near the intersection of Liberty Street SE and Superior Street SE and found Andrew Ramon, 32, dead inside the vehicle.
Update: This was a murder. Apparently after the crash, another man stabbed the driver.

Christmas Day, 2016

Drove into the DQ at 3:30am on Christmas


May 3rd, 2017

Drove into Triangle Inn - via Twitter

November 27th

From the Sheriff, the crash happened on
the 4700 block of Fuhrer Avenue NE after a Cherry Lift bus ran into a house. When deputies arrived they found the bus driver was the sole occupant in the vehicle, when he experienced a medical issue causing him to crash.
March 18th, 2018

From the paper:
One man died in a single-vehicle crash on Front Street NE in Salem Sunday morning, according to officials.

The male driver was traveling northbound on Front Street NE around 5 a.m. when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the curb at the corner of Union Street NE before crashing into a nearby tree, said Salem Police Sgt. Jon Hardy.
Posted by at

5 comments:

B+ said...

Now, if only we licensed these cars, and made people study for a test and then do some driver training, these things wouldn't happen...oh, wait...we already do that.

September 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Anonymous said...

From the SJ tonight:

"While testing out his new brakes, a Salem man drove through a stop sign and hit a house in the 3200 block of Sunnyview Drive NE, police said.

At 6:41 p.m. William R. Newman, 36, clipped a corner of the house with his 2006 four-door Cadillac sedan, said Lt. Jim Anglemier, of the Salem Police Department.

Newman told police that a friend had put new brakes on his car and he was testing them out. When the brakes failed he went through the stop sign and into the house across the T-intersection from him, Anglemier said.

Officers received reports that the driver started walking away after the crash, but came back, Anglemier said.

The family living in the house was at home but not in the room where the crash occurred, he said.

Anglemier estimates there’s several thousand dollars in damages to the house.
Newman was issued a citation for disobeying a traffic sign. Anglemier said he didn’t have proof of insurance and was driving on a suspended license."

January 11, 2013 at 11:22 PM
Sarah Owens said...

Couldn't find an account of the crash into 605 Center Street when it was under renovation (now the Center for Hope and Safety), but here's a nice vehicle-meets-concrete example instead:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2015/05/31/rv-crash-closes-center-street-bridge-ramp-two-hours/28287251/

January 23, 2016 at 11:21 AM
Anonymous said...

BikePortland has news of a crash that doesn't seem to have made local news much...

"On March 26th, 2017 at about 3:00 am, a black Ford F150 intentionally crashes into the side of the building of the Star Market at 9005 River Rd NE and steals the ATM. The vehicle is described as a 2004-2006 year and having a leveling kit, running boards, black fender flares and black rims. The rear of the vehicle now has damage from ramming the building, twice."

https://bikeportland.org/2017/03/27/oregon-has-a-driving-problem-and-we-all-need-protection-222934

March 27, 2017 at 11:40 AM
Anonymous said...

Geez, our press/cultural approach is messed up. Here's the SJ -

"A truck intentionally rammed into the side of a Brooks market early Sunday morning, and its driver made off with the store's ATM, officials said."

Two separate agents, an intentional truck, and its driver!

March 27, 2017 at 1:46 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)