Railroad Closed Temporarily After Motorhome Crash In Milwaukie

MILWAUKIE, OR — A motorhome with no brakes rolled through a stop sign and over railroad tracks Wednesday night, shearing the front bottom half of the motorhome completely away and pinning the driver inside, according to the Milwaukie Police Department.

Angela Marie Feemster, 32, was taken to Oregon Health & Science University for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries she sustained in the crash. Police officials said she will be charged with reckless driving.

Feemster was reportedly traveling south on Southeast 42nd Avenue, through the Hector Campbell neighborhood, just before 11 p.m. Aug. 29 when she blew through the stop sign at the Southeast Railroad Avenue intersection.

Witnesses traveling in a vehicle behind Feemster told police the motorhome was moving at about 35 MPH when it rolled through the intersection, into a ditch, and over the railroad abutment and tracks. The witnesses, police said, were acquaintances of Feemster and had been following the motorhome, which itself had not had brakes for more than a month, the witnesses said.

Two different tow companies were reportedly needed to extricate the motorhome and pull it back onto the roadway from off the railroad tracks. The railroad was closed for hours, police said.

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