The perp.
Posted on 10/06/2015 9:22:25 AM PDT by aimhigh
Gresham Police say a driver suspected of smoking marijuana slammed his Toyota Prius into a 46-year-old Portland woman at a Gresham intersection Monday sending the woman flying 35 feet.
The collision took place at 8:09 a.m. at the intersection of East Burnside Street and Northeast 181st Avenue. The woman, who Gresham Police did not identify, was attempting to cross Burnside on a marked crosswalk. The accident comes just just five days after retail recreational marijuana sales became legal in Oregon.
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“...the gauntlet of women driving huge SUV’S who are thoroughly distracted by their phones.”
I thought I had seen it all until I was cut off in traffic once.
It was four little old ladies in a car pulling out of a restaurant.
Every single one had a cell phone pressed to their ears.
Neither the driver or any passenger was paying attention to traffic.
Unreal.
The perp.
The perp.
The victim has since died.
A Woman struck by vehicle dies at OHSU
A woman who was hit by a car at a Gresham intersection Monday morning has died from her injuries.
Elizabeth Irma Kemble, 46, of Portland, was crossing at a marked crosswalk at the intersection of Northeast 181st Avenue and East Burnside Street when a car struck her and threw her body 35 feet, police reported.
Witnesses told police that the driver, Jacob Walters, 27, of Portland, was smoking marijuana seconds before the crash. The degree to which potential marijuana consumption was a factor is still under investigation, police said.
Police officers and medical personnel responded to the intersection at 8:09 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5, and first responders rushed to the aid of Kemble. Walters, who was driving a 2008 Toyota Prius, stayed on the scene and cooperated with the investigation.
Kemble suffered a broken left arm, compound fractures to her left leg, a broken pelvis, a spinal fracture and injuries to her head. She was unconscious when paramedics rushed her to an area hospital by ambulance. Though it was initially reported that Kemble, a three-time kidney transplant recipient, had non-life threatening injuries, her condition worsened and she died shortly after 7 p.m. Oct. 5 at Oregon Health & Science University.
Walters was arrested Monday and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of assault in the fourth degree, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. He has since been released.
This happened before pot was legalized. It will happen more now. Of course, people still drink and drive although it is illegal to do so.
Alcohol is the most widely accepted recreational drug.
I feel so bad for people that are addicted to substances, whether it is alcohol or pot. But we have tried this experiment over and over again, including prohibition of alcohol and the war on drugs.
The government has never, ever, been able to legislate morality. And it is evident day after day after day that the more government meddles in moral issues, the more out of control our morality becomes.
Making “drugs” illegal has not controlled their use or people being addicted. If you think that is true, try talking to people in the south with their opiate addictions, or people in the NE with their heroine addiction problems. People will obtain drugs.
This is no different than the gun control debate. If you think making guns illegal will make this a utopia, you are delusional. If you think making drugs illegal will keep people from using them and becoming addicted, you are delusional.
The government can't legislate morality huh? Try refusing to bake a cake for faggots and see what happens to you.
Oh, really. So because the government says gay marriage is “constitutional”, you are rolling over and accepting it and going to get married to a person of your same gender?
What a foolish response. Doesn’t make sense, and you know it.
You are seizing upon the wrong focus to the point I put forth. The government does, and CAN enforce morality.
The Government has ALWAYS enforced morality. The very concept of LAW is government enforced morality.
I am tired of people saying "the government can't legislate morality" when that is exactly what they do every single time they pass a law.
Yes, they CAN legislate morality, they do it routinely, most of our laws are nothing but the enforcement of a legislated moral code, and so people should stop repeating that the government can't legislate morality.
We are going to get legislated morality. The only question is WHO'S morality is going to get enforced. Someone's is, and you might as well just understand that.
LOL...That would seem to suggest the pedestrian only listened before stepping under out under the wheels.
Those poor souls in San Francisco think bicycles and humans are bullet proof. They’ll step right into traffic without so much as looking because they have more of a right to the road more than ugly cars and trucks. They get run over all the time to prove their point!~
I would rather see abusive potheads, drunkards, and dimwits with no self control get forced to move to Oregon.
It’s working so well for them now. Why not take in all the degenerates.
I'm all for that, whatever the intoxicating substance. But it certainly doesn't mean that one intoxicating substance should be legal while a less addictive intoxicating substance is illegal.
The plan has been in place for a long time. The characters groomed and the voters fooled. One World Government was started with Wilson's “League of Nations” then advanced to the “UN.” The puppeteers have been many and their names are known. The”Council on Foreign Relations” is an example of this group. They will give us the choice between Bush or Clinton. Both families are CFR members. Control of the strings remains in CFR etc.”s hands.
The list goes on but that is enough to whet ones appetite. Heads of Foreign States and other diplomats address the CFR before they appear before the UN. Does that make sense?
Read about them!
So people who previously avoided pot because it was illegal will now smoke it and drive although driving stoned remains illegal? Sounds doubtful to say the least.
This isn’t the first time this has happened on Burnside. But it maybe the fist time since weed was legalized in Oregon.
So yeah you are right, move along nothing to see here.
Government has done a fair job of legislating that subset of morality that says "don't violate the rights of others" - for example, two out of three murders get solved. Government has an abysmal track record when it comes to preventing immorality conducted among consenting adults, and has done a great deal of harm in the attempt.
Murders getting solved is not the same as preventing murders. Two different data sets.
Now as to the silly remark that we cannot allow alcohol but suppress drugs has a multitude of hidden premises. Besides we discriminate in the application of criminal law all the time; i.e. Petty Theft is not treated the same as killing while lying in wait, killing by torture.
There is simply no basis for allowing substances such as drugs and it is not worth while bandying words with drug addled brains. Once simply commands them! One does not debate, discuss or "express different points of view"with the addicted whether alcoholic or drug. There is too much shrieking and moaning over the bad elements in our society.
Government does not legislate morality. You are dead wrong.
If government could legislate morality, then when the government says taking the life of another is wrong, well, no one would take the life of another.
Government enforces consequences for violating laws it has determined infringe on the rights of others. But, if the government could legislate morality, then there would not be a need for consequences.
Lets talk about a government legislating morality. Do you agree with abortion? Gay marriage? Gays in the military? Transgender people in the military? Paying for transgender surgeries with your tax dollars as a constitutional right?
Did your morality change just because the government changed their view on laws?
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