News will focus on Mark's dramatic crash, on these terrible violent deaths.

But even "minor" injuries often create lifetimes of trauma, physical disability, financial pain. Portland streets cause hundreds of serious injuries every year. And impact thousands more people who witnessed them happening or care for their aftermath.

We are all deeply impacted by a very flawed transportation system, and the financial & emotional costs of forcing most people to own, store & drive cars.

We can change.

We're so focused on the young chef, whose friends, family, and colleagues will miss her daily,. On Seamus, killed in his stroller 12 years ago, whose mother will hold him close in her heart for the rest of her life.

We're so focused on the unbelievable excruciating tragedies of traffic violence death that we often fail to see the daily grind of crash after crash after crash. And the injured and the witnesses and the families & the way we all deal with a culture of car violence every single day.

And then there are those collisions that DO get reported to Portland Police. Imagine the carnage that needs to happen for that report to be made, and for the Police to respond + write a report.

Over World Day of Remembrance weekend, Saturday & Sunday, PPD's feed showed 61 "ACCIDENTS". (PPD needs to use CRASH not ACCIDENT).

Of those 61 REPORTED acts of car violence, on Saturday & Sunday, 22 were HIT AND RUNS. Another 13 were INJURIES. This weekend. On Portland streets. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TQRG8whHPB-Yi3vfNy97fakisDUhLQyOgk5PAB4tLJA/edit?usp=sharing

What about the 2 people who talked to me JUST THIS WEEK about being "bumped" "just a little" by a person backing a car out of a driveway and the other by a driver slow-rolling through an intersection. Two victims of traffic violence who didn't fall down in their minor brush with death, but were shaken.

None of them -- the schoolkids, the old woman shopping, the mom, the immigrant, the friends who were "bumped" -- reported a crash, their encounter with a deadly weapon, to the Portland Police.

But I'm not writing about Mark. These types of crashes happen every day. Especially in low income communities of color, on streets designed to encourage speeding, from cars designed to kill.

Mark's okay. We're all sickened and shaken -- Mark, everyone on the ride, the bus driver, other drivers, Mark's wife. We were witnesses to traffic violence as real as if someone had pulled out a gun and shot Mark and then run away.