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A 10-vehicle collision with one fatality is blocking both westbound lanes of Interstate 90 seven miles east of Ritzville. After initially saying two people had died in the accident, the Washington State Patrol’s follow-up news release said one person with life-threatening injuries and was been taken to Ritzville Hospital. The accident occurred at 12:46 p.m. and is fully blocking the westbound lanes. The Washington State Patrol does not know when the road will reopen.
All eastbound lanes of I-90 near North Bend will be closed 8-11 p.m. Thursday night so crews can remove a semi-truck that went off the road and was left dangling off a guardrail. The incident happened just before 5 p.m. near milepost 60 a few miles near Hyak. Rescue crews managed to help the driver, a 22-year-old male, escape from the truck cab to safety. He was transported to Harborview Medical Center for unknown injuries; his condition was unknown.
One person has died and eight people were injured in a series of accidents just west of Spokane this morning. The accidents have blocked Interstate 90 eastbound, and westbound traffic is moving stop-and-go. The accidents appear to have been caused by icy conditions on the road and drivers traveling too fast for the conditions. A pickup truck lost control near the overpass crossing West Medical Lake 4 Lakes Road. The pickup crossed the median and headed into oncoming traffic.
The Washington State Patrol says a trooper was out of his car and not hurt Monday morning when the patrol car was hit by a pickup on Interstate 90 near Preston.
A Spokane woman who drove the wrong way on Interstate 90 early Sunday caused an accident that sent her and two others to the hospital. Ashley R. Daily, 30, was driving a 2000 Honda Accord westbound in the eastbound lanes between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene about 12:26 a.m., the Idaho State Police said. Daily hit head-on a 2013 Hyundai Genesis driven by Victor J. DeLeon, 38, of Hayden. Neither one was wearing a seat belt, and both were taken to Kootenai Health for treatment, police said.