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Portland police say a woman driving westbound on Northeast Sandy Boulevard drifted off the roadway and crashed through a TriMet bus shelter at 138th Avenue, killing a woman who was waiting for the No. 21 bus. The crash remains under investigation.

(Stuart Tomlinson/The Oregonian)

A woman is dead and a woman was taken to the hospital after a single-car crash Thursday along Northeast Sandy Boulevard near its intersection with 138th Avenue.



Police were called to the scene at 3:09 p.m. and when they arrived, they found the unidentified woman on the ground and the woman driver of the crashed car having difficulties that appeared to be medical in nature.



The car was westbound on Sandy when it left the road, crashed through a TriMet bus shelter, crossed 138th and went down an embankment into a ditch near some railroad tracks. The shelter was destroyed.

Witnesses said the woman was waiting in the bus shelter, which serves the No. 21 line, when struck by the car. One witness said her son saw the accident and said, "Mom, I think she's dead." The witness said another person tried to perform CPR on the victim, but to no avail.



The investigation closed Sandy from 122nd to 148th. Police said motorists are encouraged to use Northeast Airport Way or Northeast Halsey Street as alternate routes. About 20 police cars were dispatched to the scene.

The Portland Police Bureau's Traffic Division's Major Crash Team is responding to conduct an investigation. More information will be posted when it becomes available.

-- The Oregonian