A man crossing the busy intersection at Ceder and Fifth in downtown Sandpoint was killed late Thursday afternoon when a man driving a truck didn't see him in the crosswalk.“The gentleman that hit him was stabilizing his head and kept telling him 'You're going to be okay, you're going to be okay,'” witness Sherri Voight said. “There was a lady with 911 on the phone screaming, 'You hit him, you hit him,' and he said 'I couldn't see him, I couldn't see him, it's so black out here, I couldn't see him.'” Idaho State Police say the driver of the Ford F-250 stopped at the intersection late Thursday afternoon, then turned south and hit 46 year-old Anthony Joerger. Witnesses say he was thrown at least 15 feet/Tania Dall, KXLY. More here including 1:54-minute video.

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Question: A close friend of mine was hit by a car while crossing a crosswalk near the S-R building in downtown Spokane. Another friend suffered disabling injuries when she was hit on a sidewalk by a bicycle in downtown Spokane. Have you ever been involved or nearly involved in a pedestrian-vehicle accident?