WOOD VILLAGE, Ore. - A 63-year-old man was struck and killed Thursday evening while he was walking along a road.

The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of West Arata Road and Wood Village Boulevard.

According to the Fairview Police Department, the man was walking northbound on West Arata Road when he was struck by a vehicle that was headed westbound.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity has not yet been released pending family notification.

The driver did stop and cooperated with investigators.

Anyone with further information about what happened is asked to call Sgt. John Pemberton with the Fairview Police Department at (503) 674-6236.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Most local residents hoping to get a phone call or text message Thursday morning during a city-wide test of an emergency notification system got nothing, a spokesman for the department conducting the test said Thursday afternoon.

Randy Neves, spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM), said that while the test was still technically ongoing Thursday afternoon, he was calling the results so far "a failure."

Neves said only 2,100 of the 317,000 people who signed up for a phone call or text message from the system actually got a notification and apparently no one outside the city limits received a message.

The system is designed to send out information during a natural disaster or other large-scale emergency. It should send information to people with a home phone or who are signed up to receive a call or text message on their mobile phone.

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Bureau of Emergency Management will test the community notification system for the first time Thursday, Jan. 26.

During the citywide test, PBEM will send a single message via land line phone, cellphone, text and email to as many Portland residents as possible in the shortest amount of time, according to PBEM spokesman Randy Neves.

The test will occur at 11 a.m., Thursday.

The new system has been used before in real, small-scale emergencies, but has never been successfully tested on a large scale, Neves said.

“We want this test to expose any weaknesses in the system,” said PBEM Director Carmen Merlo.

PBEM is asking Portland residents to sign up for public alerts so they can receive the test message. Personal information users provide during registration is kept private and only used to send geographically tailored emergency messages, Neves said.