On Thursday evening a driver struck and killed a person on Mission Street (Highway 22) between Hawthorne and the I-5 interchange.
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| In a crash at 50mph here on Mission St, you are dead (from ODOT's OR-22 East Facility Plan, 2017 ) |
From Salem Police on Thursday night:
At approximately 6:15 p.m. this evening, emergency responders were called to the area of Mission ST and Hawthorne AV SE on the report of a pedestrian struck by a car east of the intersection. The caller also reported the driver had left the scene.
Responding firefighters pronounced the male pedestrian deceased.
Although the call was initially reported as a hit-and-run, the involved driver stopped and called police a few blocks from site of the collision. The driver, identified as Daniel Carmona, age 69, is cooperating with the investigation.
The pedestrian, a 51-year-old man, is not being identified pending notification to his family.
The Traffic Team investigation continues, and as such, no citations have been issued or arrest made....
This evening’s collision is the second traffic fatality of 2024.
Update 02/09/2024 | 11:30 a.m.
Notification of family is complete, and the pedestrian is identified as David Henten Stockam of Salem.
The incident remains an active investigation, and no further information is available for release.
Please note: Mr. Stockam’s death is the third traffic fatality of the year, not the second as previously reported.
The MPO includes Mission Street here as a high crash corridor, ranking it twelfth.
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| Mission St is No. 12 High Crash Corridor (SKATS) |
Speeds are much too high for the urban context, especially as there are stores nearby. There are also, of course, camp sites, and as much as some people crave hobo evaporation, they do have lives to lead and will want to travel places. And a person with car trouble might have to walk some ways also for assistance. There are multiple reasons a person might be on foot here.
Before I-5 was blasted through, and before Mission Street was so dangerously enlarged, it was a frequent picnicking site.
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| June 30th, 1935 |
Today the Hager Grove Pear, an Oregon Heritage Tree, is completely inaccessible. Travel Oregon blurbs it, but you can't go there!
This post may be updated.
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| Back in 2015 we said "troubling" but really, how troubled are we? |
Killed in 2024
- Robert Duane Marshall (Center and High)
Killed in 2023
- Marganne Allen (biking on High Street)
- Julia Aubrey Wade (on Lancaster Drive)
- Adam Joy (biking on Wallace Road near Wheatland)
- Michael Scott Campos-Kegley (on Chemawa Road)
- John Alvin Schwiewek (on Turner Road)
- Ronald Bert Olbekson (Lancaster Drive) and Jose Romero Cruz (Highway 22 near Doaks Ferry)
- Kiristian Murauo (Cordon Road)
Killed in 2022
- George Heitz and Moira Hughes (inside their own home)
- Jowand Beck, Luke Kagey, Joe Posada III, and Rochelle Zamacona (camping on Front between Union and Division)
- Unknown person (on Cordon Road)
- Unknown person (on Lancaster Drive)
- Unknown person (on Lancaster Drive)
- Charles Dwayne Hatfield (I-5 in Linn County)
- Wesley James Crossman (RR)
- Vince Edward Fouts (Woodmansee Park lot)
- Cassandra Sullivan (I-5)
- Cynthia Lynn Perry Rizzo (Sunnyview Road)
- Kelly Joseph Fields (Cordon Road)
- Michael Ernest Summers (I-5)
- Denise Marie Vandyke (State and High)
- Linda Louise Wisher (Madrona Ave)
Killed in 2021
- Unknown person (I-5 and Market Street interchange)
- Rachel Bunting (while operating a bus for Cherriots)
- Blake Saville (on bike)
- Christian Kennedy (on Silverton Road)
- Galina Dvorskaya (south Commercial)
- Marlene Moreno (downtown crosswalk)
- Becky Dietzel (on North River Road)
- Unknown person (on Church St downtown)
- Aleta Pierre-Kelly (Mission Street)
- Eileen Johnson (on bike)
- Unknown person (on bike crossing Salem Parkway)
- Anthony Garza (on bike, crossing I-5)
- Christine Klug (on I-5)
- Samuel Lannigan (Lancaster Drive)
- Jaime Le Ann Hall (on skateboard)
- Sharon Pritchard
- Mario Lopez-Lopez (walking a bike)
- Unknown person via SJ (on I-5 near Market St)
- Andrew Otho Polston (biking on Windsor Island Road)
- Jolene Braasch Berry (on bike)
- Richardo Morales Avila (in McMinnville)
- Octavious Calloway (on I-5 near Market St)
- Selma Pierce
- Hermilo Mata Jr.
- Unknown person (on mobility scooter)
- Marshall Leslie
- Linda Adamson (south Salem) and Stephanie Ashford (biking on Lakeside Drive)
- Joseph Rodriguez (Lakeside Drive)
- Jason Libel (on bike)
- Josephine Watkins
- Rodric Kenyon Drolshagen
Killed in 2017
Killed in 2016:
- Olivia Stroup
- Jaren Nash
- Alex Armes
- Anthony Earnest
- Baxter Harrell
- Unknown (just outside Salem)
- Bradley Goad (in Silverton)
1 comment:
How hard could it be to put a walking path along the barrier on Mission? Ive seen them in other locations, where there is an asphalt path a few feet on the outside of the barrier. Seems a no brainer to me. Especially important as you note, because there are stores and other destinations along this roadway. Plus, reducing the speed by 10 MPH would be so little but gain so much. Every time I go that direction to Winco or Home Depot, it scares me how fast the traffic goes. I think it is posted at 55 MPH, or maybe less, but people go that fast like its already the freeway.
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