The driver of an older-model Chevrolet van, going south on Milwaukie Avenue, was apparently unprepared for the point where the street suddenly angles left to join S.E. 17th, on Tuesday, April 8th.
He rolled up onto an adjacent lawn, then veered into the concrete bollards installed to protect the “Moreland Ale House” from this very thing, and wound up on the sidewalk – so wedged in that the van proved hard to remove.
Responding Central Precinct officers at the scene observed that the vehicle had slid along the sidewalk after flipping onto its side, driver door down – coming to rest against a wooden utility pole, street signs, and several steel-and-concrete bollards…