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A 72-year-old Payette woman driving with her adult granddaughter slammed into a Nampa Verizon store Wednesday afternoon, injuring several and sending two to the hospital.
The Nampa Police Department says the woman was parking her car when she accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake, sending her car more than halfway into the store.
A fatal three-car accident closed both directions of U.S. Highway 95 for about two hours Tuesday afternoon at the Spokane River Bridge in Coeur d’Alene. The Idaho State Police reports that Stephen L. Pedersen, 60, was driving north when he crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a car driven by Leonard G. Hammrich, 74, of Hayden Lake. Pedersen, a resident of Coeur d’Alene, was killed. Hammrich was taken to Kootenai Health for treatment of his injuries. The third vehicle involved, driven by Coeur d’Alene resident Adam Jacobson, 35, was driving north behind Pedersen.
The female driver of a Honda passenger car has died after crashing into a horse, veering off the road, then hitting a rock wall Monday morning.
The deadly crash happened on Idaho State Highway 16 near the Firebird Raceway just after 5 a.m.
Ada County Sheriff's deputies say the woman was driving southbound when she hit the horse. Afterward, she veered off the highway, drove about 300 yards through fields and fences, and eventually struck a rock wall. The vehicle suffered heavy damage.
Boise Police responded to a two vehicle crash on Curtis Road Saturday evening that sent both drivers to the hospital.
Police say a four door Honda and a Ford Expedition collided in the intersection of Curtis Road and Plymouth Street. The driver of the Honda is hospitalized with serious injuries.
At this point police say it appears the driver of the Expedition failed to yield and officers believe alcohol may be involved.
The crash closed Curtis Road for nearly one hour.
Two women were taken to the hospital Monday evening after a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 95 near Potlatch, the Idaho State Police said.
Laurel A. Flerchinger, 23, of Clarkston, was driving north on the highway when she crossed the center line around 5:30 p.m., according to a news release. Flerchinger’s late-model Toyota sedan struck the 2000 Subaru sedan driven by Alesha K. Barr, 19, of Pinehurst.
Both women were injured and taken to Gritman Medical Center in Moscow. Their condition was not immediately available Tuesday morning.
A commercial vehicle accident spilled 500 gallons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and killed the driver on U.S. Highway 95 near Lake Cocolalla in Idaho on Saturday. The highway was closed for nearly seven hours after the 1 p.m. crash. The driver, identified as 62-year-old John M. Moody, of Peck, Idaho, drifted off the roadway as he drove north, according to the Idaho State Police. His tractor-trailer overturned, causing the spill of liquid fertilizer.
A chaotic scene unfolded in Coeur d’Alene this morning after a woman, Identified as Kara L. Powers 33, reportedly caused a crash, stole a car with three children inside and then caused another crash. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office responded to a crash at Silver Beach Loop Road and Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive at 7:30 a.m. this morning. A silver Mercedes SUV was reportedly driving east in the westbound lane and hit a Subaru driven by a 61-year-old Coeur d’Alene woman. An uninvolved driver with three children in her Volvo stopped to help.
A pileup involving a logging truck and more than 40 other vehicles has resulted in at least 10 injuries on Idaho's main east-west highway.
Idaho State Police say the crash started when fog rolled in Thursday morning as troopers tried to clear a previous wreck on Interstate 84 west of Boise.
Police say a motorist tried to change lanes to move away from the previous crash but clipped another vehicle. That caused a chain reaction involving the logging truck, which clipped other tractor trailers in the interstate's westbound lanes.