Only one car involved, looked to have hit a concrete pylon for an overpass
The ambulance was called out but ended up not being needed
Its a Toyota Matrix
for any of you familiar to Portland, this is on Columbia Blvd at the 33rd st. overpass

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No guard rails ?Even in the best designed car that would of been hard to survive.Looks like the car came in at an angle ,gaurd rail would of saved a life.

I think you are right, no there are no guard rails protecting cars from hitting the pylons, and its 4 lanes packed into a tight space under the overpass with a 45 mph speed limit

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I've had that happen to me a couple times...in April we had a medical chopper land in the neighbor's yard, also not needed. Always tough to see. There should really be guardrails there to prevent the obvious crash scenario, I'm surprised there aren't. Around here we have an angled concrete barrier around almost all of those to prevent that from happening.

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Another reason for guards. Many of these incidences are thought to be suicides. If I were somehow motavated to attempt a thing like that I would not use a motor vehicle. You could land up seriously mangled and still alive.