Powell Blvd mishap sends car into tree (tree wins)

Published 12:00 am Friday, March 31, 2017

By David F. Ashton

While veering away from a converging car on Powell Boulevard, this Lexus was stopped by a street tree.

Two cars were involved in a near miss on S.E. Powell Boulevard, just east of S.E. Chavez Boulevard (39th) at about 4 p.m. on March 10 — which led to a Lexus GS 300 smashing into a street tree in front of the Creston-Kenilworth Safeway Store parking lot.

An East Precinct officer at the scene told THE BEE that the two cars had been eastbound on Powell when one of them made a rapid lane change. The other car swerved to avoid the other, ran up the driveway ramp, and smashed into the street tree.

The 9-1-1 Center dispatched the incident as an injury accident, and the car’s airbags had deployed from the impact. The firefighter-paramedics with PF&R Engine 9 checked out those involved in the accident; the drivers were treated at the scene, and didn’t seek additional medical care.

“It was an accident; and, in this case of ‘car versus a tree’, the tree won,” the officer commented.

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