A final video of Richard Swanson shows him smiling and happy to be at the ocean as he prepared to dribble a ball along Oregon’s coastal road on a planned 16,000km walk to the World Cup in Brazil. It was the same coastal road where he was fatally hit by a pickup truck, just an hour after posting the video on Facebook.
Swanson’s trek began in Seattle on May 1. It ended on Tuesday near Lincoln City, Oregon when he was struck by a pickup truck on Oregon’s busy US Highway 101 just a few days short of his 43rd birthday.
He planned to dribble a football all the way to Brazil in time for the next year World Cup for a charity.
When he arrived on Monday in Lincoln City, about 145km southwest of Portland, it was the first time he had seen the Pacific on his trip.
Tuesday morning, he posted a video on his Facebook page showing him walking along the beach, kicking a football.
He said he was looking forward to getting out onto US 101 and heading south with the football.