Driver Cited After Striking Woman in Wheelchair in East Portland - 02/14/12

This afternoon, Tuesday February 14, 2012, at 4:32 p.m., Portland Police officers responded to the report of a woman in a wheelchair struck by a vehicle at 160th and East Burnside Street.

Officers arrived and contacted the pedestrian, 47-year-old Sharon Holmes, who suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries. The driver, 79-year-old Susan Wong, remained at the scene and cooperated with officers.

Holmes was in her wheelchair crossing the westbound lanes of East Burnside, in a marked crosswalk (no signal), when she was struck by Wong who was driving westbound.

Holmes was transported to an area hospital. Wong was given a traffic citation for Failure to Yield to a Pedestrian.