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AM Scanner Traffic — 2/10/09

Feb. 10, 2009 11:49 a.m. • 3 comments

11:28 a.m. Bonner County coroner and a wrecker are having difficulty getting to the Granite Hill crash site as a result of the backed-up traffic.
11:25 a.m. S&S Herb reports that Time-Warner is down throughout the area.
11:20 a.m. A 40-something woman has hurt herself in a fall at a Hayden RV sales yard, 20789 N. Highway 95.
10:41 a.m. ISP officer on scene of crash (which now has been established as 2 miles north of the Kootenai/Bonner county line, calls for the Bonner County coroner. This may be a two-vehicle accident with one vehicle coming to rest on its top.
10:33 a.m. EMT at scene of Granite Hill crash scene calls in Med-Star helicopter.
10:19 a.m. A possible fatal accident has occurred at the bottom of Granite Hill on US 95 (near the Bonner/Kootenai county line). One R/P reports a double fatality with a third person seriously injured after a single-vehicle rollover. It’s also possible that two unconscious individuals are trapped in the car.

8:47 a.m. At first, an ISP officer thought there was an accident ahead of him in the e/b lanes of I-90. But he later discovered that the stoplights at NW Boulevard were causing traffic back-up.

8:33 a.m. City worker calls for sand near the Coeur d’Alene Library b/c slick roads are causing motorists to slide and spinoff there.

8:15 a.m. ISP patrol officer: ‘The stretch from Plummer to Worley is extremely icy.’

Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JohnA on February 10 at 12:08 p.m.
My friend Al came by the Granite Hill wreck just after it happened. He said it was very slick just after the snow started to fall.

If you’re not familiar with that stretch, it has a tight corner at the bottom with a left turn lane southbound then a steep grade to the top of the hill. Badly designed and the scene of many accidents, according to Al who lives just north of there. It is just south of where I witnessed the horrible wreck in December that killed a woman.

I wonder how many people have to die before Highway 95 gets the funding needed to make it safe to travel. Something has to happen to stop the carnage.
hhuseland on February 10 at 12:35 p.m.
Time-Warner is back up.

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