Portland,OR : 1 dead after vehicle crashes off Portland embankment on December, Sunday 3rd 2017

A passenger was killed after the driver crashed their car off an embankment and got it stuck into a tree Sunday, Portland Police confirmed.

Around 6 p.m., emergency responders were able to get both the driver and the passenger out of the car, but the passenger, 44-year-old Shad Alexander, did not survive.

The driver of the car suffered no serious injuries. SW Boones Ferry Road will be closed for several hours from Colony Drive to Terwilliger Boulevard. It was a single-vehicle crash.

According to a Facebook post shared by Hillsboro’s Century High School football team, Alexander was once a coach and president of Century Community Football and youth basketball.

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1 dead after vehicle crashes off Portland embankment