The intersection of S.E. Holgate Boulevard and Milwaukie Avenue was once again closed down, while police investigated yet another injury accident there.

With seemingly increasing frequency, motor vehicle accidents occur at the intersection of S.E. Holgate Boulevard and Milwaukie Avenue. For example, at 9:34 pm on Sunday, August 3, a Kia Rio and a Subaru Outback tangled there.

The smashup was originally called in as a “head-on collision”. However, Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct officers arriving at the scene reported instead that one vehicle was making a turn, and the other car ran into it.

The direction of travel of the vehicles was unclear, but the front drivers’ sides of the vehicles sustained the most damage. Airbags deployed in both vehicles, and one victim was transported to a local hospital for observation and treatment.

And that was just one of two such accidents reported there in August, in addition to the one THE BEE covered in July. Better drive extra defensively around that busy intersection!