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A driver hit a pedestrian Sept. 6, 2016, at Southeast 148th Avenue and Division Street.

(The Oregonian/File)

A pedestrian was rushed to a hospital with traumatic injuries after a driver hit him and left the scene Tuesday night in Southeast Portland, police said.

Responders were dispatched to Division Street and 148th Avenue around 8:45 p.m. Police don't know the pedestrian's condition and identified him in a news release only as a "male."

Police said early information indicates the driver left the scene, came back and aided the pedestrian. He left before police got there, and a woman showed up and drove away in his car, according to police.

Officers pursued her, police said, and she crashed at 150th Avenue and Main Street. She was taken into custody, and police are looking for the driver -- a man in his early 40s.

The city's transportation bureau has previously identified Southeast Division Street as a high-crash corridor. The street sees 50 percent more crashes involving pedestrians than the city average.

Tuesday's crash comes two days after a driver hit and killed a pedestrian on Division Street east of 122nd Avenue -- less than 1-1/2 miles away.

Clifford Eugene Perry Jr., 40, was allegedly intoxicated and speeding when he hit and killed Damon Burton, 61, according to police. Police said Perry kept driving until he hit a concrete block at a nearby gas station.

Burton was trying to cross Division Street from the south side of the wide thoroughfare when Perry hit him while speeding west, police said.

Perry was arraigned Tuesday on second-degree manslaughter, driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving charges, court records show. He's being held in Multnomah County's Inverness Jail on $255,000 bail, according to jail records.

A driver also hit and killed an 84-year-old woman while she was crossing Division Street at 156th Avenue in mid-January. Francis Weaver was riding her motorized scooter in a crosswalk when Carolyn Bettin hit her, police said.

Investigators concluded that Bettin wasn't impaired. She stopped after the collision and was cooperative with investigators, police said.

Bettin pleaded no contest in May to a "careless driving/vulnerable user" violation, according to court records. She's ordered to attend a high risk driving course and perform 100 court-approved hours of community service, the records show.

If she does so by her November sentencing hearing, she will be sentenced to a $435 fine, according to the records. If she doesn't, she'll have her driver's license suspended for a year and be sentenced to a $12,500 fine.

Officers are investigating Tuesday's crash.

-- Jim Ryan

jryan@oregonian.com

503-221-8005; @Jimryan015

Andrew Theen of The Oregonian/OregonLive staff contributed to this report