54 people killed in Portland traffic crashes in 2020 – the most since 1996 – despite the pandemic
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
The scene on Southeast 122nd Avenue of the final traffic death of 2020, where a woman was struck and killed by what police said was an impaired driver.
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Catherine Randolph was struck and killed on New Year’s Eve while walking across cavernous 122nd Avenue in Southeast Portland, the 18th and last pedestrian to die in 2020.
Police said Randolph, 51, was walking across the five-lane urban highway outside a crosswalk when the driver of a 2002 Honda Accord smashed into her near Southeast Tibbets Street, a stubby residential road that dead ends on either side of 122nd, one of Portland’s most dangerous streets no matter how you’re traveling.