Pedestrian hit by van dies from injuries
EUGENE, Ore. - A pedestrian hit by a van while crossing the street Tuesday has died.
Jolene Louise Parrish, 58, succumbed to the injuries she sustained in the crash and died Wednesday.
The driver of the Volkswagen Vanagon is Deborah Ann Douglas of Eugene.
This case remains under investigation by the Eugene Police Major Collision Investigation team and no citations or arrests have been made at this time. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact officers at 541.682.5154 x 1145.
Eugene Police told KVAL News that witnesses saw the pedestrian trying to cross Royal Avenue diagonally between Danebo Avenue and Candlelight Drive when she was hit by a westbound Volkswagon Vanagon.
Most of us will going to Springfield to do our shopping so we won't have to put up with those unsanitary bags that people bring from their homes. Thank you for bringing that up Ritual99. And the big plus is we won't be getting run over by those wreckless drivers in Eugene. People can drive anyway they chose because Eugene has no police department due to no funding. The reason is they spend all the money to keep bums from all parts of the country housed in pig stys. And the sad part is the tax payers have to pay for it in order to satisfy the egos of amature politicians.
Eugene sounds like a great city; your drivers constantly run over and kill pedestrians and you are a haven for hobos/bums/homeless druggies. But on the plus side you banned plastic Bags????? APPLAUSE well done.
@Ritual99@Franklyspeaking ---bit off the mark on this news article, but why the hell this green agenda with plastic bags? I only ride a bicycle and need those bags to loop around the bull horns on my handle bars, so I can ride with both hands. Paper bags get soggy from my beer/soda/milk and make the beverages crash and splatter on the asphalt (in the crosswalk). Home brought bags will eventually cause an outbreak of food poisoning, especially from the homeless that cannot afford the nickle a bag. Also, homeless need them to protect their items from the rain and to gather up nickles from refundables.
Paper bags require more petro-chemicals than plastic bags in every phase from production to disposal. Must be some job creation initiative which will backfire on everyone including the storeowners. Copy, paste, and pass it on. I don't want to see children, elderly and homeless pedestrians getting whacked in a crosswalk while they are busy scrambling for groceries spilling from their soggy paper bags. Â
 @Ritual99 Eugene pedestrians have no common sense. They think they are invincible if the law is on their side. And the worst part is most of them do not know the law. They think the always have the right of way.
@givupongod @Ritual99 ---my father used to always tell me as a child, that my only right of way in an intersection or crosswalk was to the grave. I guess that was how I survived a rather wreckless childhood.
 @peace  peace that is a great way of saying it. I had to tell my oldest son. "It doesn't do you any good to be right and dead".Â