A person driving a delivery truck struck and killed a person trying to cross Cordon Road, where intersections and crosswalks are sparse, and driving speeds high. Night time visibility was likely a factor also.
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| Crosswalks at signalized intersections at Gaffin and Lancaster are one mile apart |
From Salem Police:
A man was struck and killed by a delivery truck Saturday evening on Cordon RD SE.
At approximately 7:50 p.m. on December 2, the driver of a delivery van reported he had struck what he believed to be a pedestrian while traveling northbound on Cordon RD SE just south of the HW22E overpass. Salem Police personnel arrived on scene and located a deceased man off the west shoulder of the roadway.
The preliminary investigation by the Salem Police Traffic Team shows the decedent, Kiristian Murauo, age 23, was attempting to cross Cordon RD when he was struck by the delivery van in the north-bound vehicle lane of travel. No lawful pedestrian crossing, or overhead street lighting exists in the area of the crash location.
The driver, Justin Rodriguez, age 35, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators....
No arrest has occurred, or citation issued as the collision remains under investigation. No other information is available for release.
This is near the Amazon and Home Depot warehouses and a person might like to cross Cordon Road to the housing on the north side of it. Crosswalks at Gaffin Road and Lancaster Drive are fully a mile apart. A person might be camping also. We don't know.
But we do know that Cordon Road is completely hostile to people on foot and on bike, and with the City working to site warehouses and other new businesses in utterly car-dependent configurations on the outer side of Cordon Road (no longer any "cordon"), some people will not be driving, and this is not some isolated catastrophe. All the ingredients for future catastrophe remain, unmitigated.
- See notes on the Cordon Kuebler Corridor Study also, which is supposed to be working on making this corridor safer, but whose final public plan is overdue.
This post may be updated.
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1 comment:
Fascinating voice of authority comment with no attribution: " No lawful pedestrian crossing, or overhead street lighting exists in the area of the crash location."
Blame the victim much?
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