Photo Courtesy Portland Police
PORTLAND, Ore. – The driver killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday has been identified as 43-year-old Guillermo Soto Briceno of Portland, authorities confirmed.
Briceno’s body was recovered from the Columbia River following the crash near Northeast Marine Drive and Northeast 122nd Avenue. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office made the identification, and his family has been notified.
Emergency crews responded around 8:01 a.m. on Aug. 2 after reports of a damaged guardrail and a vehicle overturned in a shallow part of the river. When officers arrived, the vehicle was found empty.
Portland Fire & Rescue, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office River Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard assisted in the search for the missing driver. The Major Crash Team with the Portland Police Bureau later joined the investigation due to the likelihood of a fatality.
The vehicle was eventually removed from the water. No other occupants were found.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact the Portland Police Bureau’s Traffic Investigations Unit at [email protected] and reference case number 25-207638.
Traffic in the area was temporarily restricted but has since reopened.
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