Portland,OR : one driver injured and taken to hospital after Three Car crash caused by High speed on Monday ,May 25th 2015

Portland Fire crews had to extricate one man out of a car involved in a three-car crash on Marine Dr. Monday afternoon.

Portland Police responded to the on NE Marine Drive, East of 122nd Avenue around 3:10 p.m.

One of the drivers was taken to to Portland Adventist Medical Center with a broken collar bone while firefighters worked to free the trapped driver.

Firefighters used hydraulic tools to cut a Chrysler sedan from around the trapped patient. Once firefighters got him out of his car, he was transported to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and entered into the trauma system.

Dr. Howard Moskowitz was driving a third vehicle involved in the crash. He walked away without any serious injuries. He said the driver of the Chrysler "abruptly" crossed the center line, causing the crash.

"I swerved to try to get away so he side-swiped me on my left side, which caused me to spin, and face the direction that I'm in now," Moskowitz said. "But he ricocheted off me because of that and ended up back in his lane, which caused him to have a front-end collision with the gentleman that was behind me."

John Candioto lives a few feet from where the crash happened. He said it made a "horrendous" noise. He ran outside, and began helping Dr. Moskowits put out a fire underneath one one of the vehicles until fire crews arrived.

“By looking at it, it appeared speed [was the cause] for sure...The damage to the car and that there was survivors of that was amazing to me," Cantioto said.

The City of Portland has already identified that stretch of Marine Drive as one of its High Crash Corridors. It calls the road one of the most dangerous in the city: 72 percent of drivers speed on the road east of 122nd Ave and there are three times more crashes involving people driving outside of their lanes than any other road in the city.


Source :
Witnesses believe speed played role in 3-car crash on Marine Dr.