Motor scooter crashes in the dark, driver dies, in Brentwood-Darlington

Published 12:00 am Sunday, November 24, 2024

After he apparently drove his motor scooter into a new “traffic island” at S.E. 72nd Avenue and Ogden Street at 3 a.m. on Friday, November 1, its adult male driver was thrown to the ground. And, arriving East Precinct officers found he had died from the impact.

The PPB Traffic Division’s Major Crash Team was dispatched to investigate, closing down S.E. 72nd Avenue from Bybee to Henderson. “Preliminary information suggests that the scooter was the only involved vehicle,” a PPB spokesperson reported.

On November 7th, Portland Police revealed that the man killed in the crash was 43-year-old Sean A. Kehr of Portland. It was not mentioned whether or not he had been wearing the required helmet at the time of the accident.

Later that week, during a gathering at the Brentwood-Darlington Community Center later that week, that crash was a topic of conversation. “That new ‘traffic island’ hasn’t been marked, except for some ‘cone sticks’ around it,” a neighbor told THE BEE. “I live close by, and I’ve almost run into those concrete barriers with my car, myself.”

If you have information to add about this crash, please e-mail it to – crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov – to the attention of the Traffic Investigations Unit, and refer to Case No. 24-279710.