Five Corners will live on in name if not in fact after it unceremoniously becomes four corners sometime next week, say residents of the area just east of Vancouver.

Numerous fender benders and some serious injury accidents at the intersection prompted Clark County this year to cut the confusion at the five-road intersection by cutting out one of the streets.

NE 94th Avenue, at one time a major arterial between NE 76th Street to the north and Fourth Plain Road to the south, will be made a deadend at NE 76th Street and curved to the right to link up with Covington Road.

NE 94th Avenue died a gradual death after Interstate 205 bisected it to the south and its link to Fourth Plain Road was cut off.

But Five Corners is far from dead, and has grown to a shopping lcuster over the years.

Hordes of cars move east and west daily over NE 76th Street, north along heavily traveled NE 94th Avenue, and southeast along Covington Road to Orchards.

Jack Caulfield, operator of a gas station called Caulfield's at Five Corners, a gas station, said he'll stick with the name he's used for 30 years, at least for the six or seven years.

"To anyone who's been around here for some time, it'll still be Five Corners, because it has been for so many years," he said.

But Caulfield said he thinks Five Corners as a landmark for Clark County motorists may fade from general usage over the years, as did Three Corners along St. Johns Road south of NE 76th Street.

"There's nothing there anymore. Maybe ours will be different. I don't know," he said.

One thing Five Corners does have going for its chances of living on in name is the Five Corners Mall. Co-owner Larry Hall said he probably will keep the name because the area will still be known as Five Corners despite the change to the intersection.