People experiencing homelessness represented 19% of the overall traffic fatalities, including 36% of pedestrian fatalities.
PORTLAND, Ore. — There were 63 traffic deaths in Portland in 2022, according to an annual report released Monday by the Portland Bureau of Transportation, an exact tie with the previous year’s three-decade high.
The matching figure does represent a break from the steady annual rise in traffic deaths that Portland has seen since 2018, but it’s still a record-high total that PBOT officials said points to an urgent need for increased safety.
“No one should be killed just by traveling on the streets of Portland, no matter how
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