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PM Scanner Traffic — 8.20.09

  • 4:45 p.m. A bicyclist is on the ground in front of Great Harvest/Government Way & Ironwood, after a crash w/an SUV. Update: Officer reports that teen crashed bike. He wasn't hit by car.
  • 4:22 p.m. 3YO boy in 600 block of Catherine/Post Falls has swallowed an unknown amount of ink from a pen.
  • 3:29 p.m. A 70YO female has suffered multi fractures in a fall down stairs on West Shoreline/Post Falls.
  • 2:55 p.m. EMTs are transporting a 20ish female who is 8 months pregnant from a two-vehicle, blocking crash @ Pleasantview & Seltice/Post Falls.
  • 2:45 p.m. A bicyclist is bleeding from his side after being hit by a semi on e/b off-ramp of I-90 Spokane Street/Post Falls. More below.
  • 2:43 p.m. A to Z Smoke Shop @ 6906 Seltice reports a drunken male w/a large bag is panhandling customer and refusing to leave the premises.
  • 2:24 p.m. Taco Bell has contained a yellow Lab puppy w/a black collar.
  • 1:36 p.m. Honeysuckle Beach lifeguard reports she has two vicious, black Labs contained at her station.
  • 1:10 p.m. A man reports that a motorist in a gray-and-red pickup threatened to run over his girlfriend and him @ 10th & Walnut/CdA.
  • 12:50 p.m. Woman motorist reports a trucker wouldn't get over as she tried to enter the freeway from the H41 onramp.
  • 12:41 p.m. R/P reports a black pickup pulling a boat trailer is emitting a large amount of black exhaust.
  • 12:37 p.m. A man with a shaved head and tattoos is acting strangely near CdA library.
  • 12:13 p.m. Marine patrol reports a deadhead is submerged 300 yards out from the mouth of the Spokane River in Lake Coeur d'Alene.
  • 12:05 p.m. Pedestrian on Tanager/Hayden reports that her dogs were attacked by another dog.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


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    D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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