{"id":784848,"date":"2026-07-26T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:47:14","slug":"two-riders-in-critical-condition-after-late-night-motorcycle-crash-in-nw-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/784848\/","title":{"rendered":"Two riders in critical condition after late-night motorcycle crash in NW Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Two motorcyclists were seriously injured late Friday in a crash in Northwest Portland that prompted a response from the Portland Police Bureau\u2019s Major Crash Team.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the bureau responded at 11:14 p.m. Friday, July 24 to reports of a crash involving two motorcycles at Northwest St. Helens Road and Northwest Front Avenue. Police arrived and found both drivers down.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO |<a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/vancouver-businesses-fear-misdemeanor-citation-limits-could-fuel-repeat-low-level-crime-washington-clark-county-investigation-police-local-community-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Some Vancouver business owners fear citation limits could fuel repeat low-level crime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took both riders to a nearby hospital. Both drivers were listed in critical condition, and one had life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Major Crash Team is investigating. Northwest St. Helens Road was closed between Northwest Front Avenue and Northwest Balboa Avenue during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>PPB asked anyone with information who has not already spoken with police is asked to email crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, attention TIU, and reference case No. 26-215631.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Two motorcyclists were seriously injured late Friday in a crash in Northwest Portland that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-784848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}