A person died Thursday night after a rollover crash on Northeast Marine Drive that sent the driver’s vehicle through a fence at Portland International Airport, police said Thursday.

The vehicle rolled off the roadway and overturned, then crashed through the fence that surrounds the airport perimeter, Portland police and a Port of Portland spokesperson said.

The driver was found dead at the scene after officers responded to a 10 p.m. call reporting the crash. Nobody else was with the driver, Portland police said. They didn’t release the driver’s name, age or gender or say what kind of vehicle crashed.

The vehicle didn’t reach any runways, Port of Portland spokesperson Kama Simonds said, and the crash did not affect any flights. The fence was fixed by around 3:30 a.m., she said.

Simonds said drivers occasionally crash into the fence along the stretch of Northeast Marine Drive, though she declined to provide a number without immediate access to the data.

People can be distracted by the views of Vancouver and planes landing and taking off and it’s a narrow, two-lane road where people can go at relatively high speeds.

—  Fedor Zarkhin

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