On the overcast, but dry, Tuesday afternoon of May 13th – just before 2 p.m. – a beige Toyota Sienna CE minivan pulled out of a parking lot onto Powell Boulevard in front of an oncoming a Harley-Davidson “FLHX Street Glide” touring motorcycle. The location was near the 80th Avenue exit from the Powell Street Station – what many call the “Winco shopping center” – in the Foster-Powell neighborhood.
According to witnesses, several vehicles were lined up at the southern exit of the shopping center, waiting to enter Powell.
A driver told THE BEE that he was second in the exit line, and was “simply shocked” to see the minivan in front of him pull out into S.E. Powell directly into the path of an oncoming westbound motorcycle. “There wasn’t any traffic coming except a guy, who looked to be in his 50s, riding his motorcycle. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing as it happened!”…