A 64-year-old West Linn man has died after a motorcycle crash Thursday afternoon on SW Cascade Avenue in Beaverton, marking the second fatal motorcycle wreck in the city within a single week. The rider was taken to a hospital in critical condition after colliding with a driver in a Toyota Camry near Hall Boulevard and Scholls Ferry Road at about 4:20 p.m., and he later died of his injuries.
According to KATU, Beaverton police said the Camry driver is cooperating with the ongoing investigation. The Beaverton Police Department's own investigation, as detailed by the Beaverton Valley Times, determined the crash involved a motorcycle and a Toyota Camry, and investigators from the Washington County Crash Analysis Reconstruction Team, a specialized multi-agency unit known as CART, were called in to process the scene.
A Second Beaverton Fatality in Days
Thursday's crash came just days after another motorcyclist died in a separate wreck on Scholls Ferry Road near SW Loon Drive on Sunday night. The Beaverton Police Department reported via FlashAlert that the fatal crash involved a Kawasaki Z50 motorcycle and a Tesla, and the rider — a 34-year-old man from Dallas, Oregon — was pronounced dead at the scene. The Tesla driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police, according to the same FlashAlert report.
The Scholls Ferry and Loon Drive intersection has also been the site of a serious crosswalk crash. Hoodline previously reported on a crosswalk crash at that same intersection on June 25, 2026, in which a 14-year-old e-scooter rider was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle.
A Corridor With a Troubled History
The Scholls Ferry corridor has seen other fatal crashes this year beyond Beaverton's city limits. On June 15, 2026, a 32-year-old Albany man was killed on SW Scholls Ferry Road at the Highway 219 intersection in rural Washington County when his motorcycle crashed into a turning Mercedes SUV, per the Forest Grove News-Times. Witnesses attempted lifesaving measures before emergency crews arrived, and the rider died at the scene.
Earlier in 2026, on March 30, Beaverton police responded to another fatal motorcycle collision on SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway near Highway 217 involving a Ducati motorcycle and a Hyundai Elantra, a crash Hoodline covered in its piece, Motorcyclist Dead Near SW 110th. That collision shut down traffic near the OR-217 connector for several hours. Together, the crashes point to a recurring pattern of deadly motorcycle wrecks within Beaverton city limits this year.
What the State Numbers Show
Statewide, the picture is somewhat different. Preliminary data from the Oregon Department of Transportation recorded 30 motorcyclist fatalities statewide between January and June 2026, down from 33 during the same period in 2025 and 39 in 2024, according to the agency's own crash data system. Motorcycle fatalities remain a traffic-safety concern.
Motorcycle licensing and penalties are also relevant to riders. NHTSA 2024 data cited in Hoodline's earlier coverage of a Malheur County motorcycle fatality gives rates of 28.00 versus 1.05 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled for motorcyclists and passenger-car occupants, respectively, underscoring how little protection riders have compared to drivers in enclosed vehicles.
Growing Scrutiny of Local Roads
In July 2026, a $39 million lawsuit was filed against the City of Beaverton and Washington County over a fatal rollover crash on Tile Flat Road, a case Hoodline detailed in its report on the lawsuit over the Tile Flat crash. The litigation reflects ongoing legal and public concern over infrastructure design as southwest Beaverton's rapid suburban growth continues to push traffic pressure onto roads that were once rural.
Beaverton police continue to investigate Thursday's Cascade Avenue crash, and no additional details about potential causes have been released. With two fatal motorcycle crashes now on the books within a single week, the city's roadways — and the intersections and corridors that have repeatedly produced tragedy in 2026 — are likely to remain under close watch from residents, investigators, and traffic engineers alike.
