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St. Maries Resident Dies In Accident

A St. Maries resident weas killed and four others injured at 5:18 this morning when a GMC Suburban, driven by Ronnie M. Quintana, 27, of Spokane, fail to negotiate a curve on Highway 5 at Heyburn State Park, hit an embankment and rolled several times before coming to rest on its top in the westbound lane. Jamie C. Kirkland Rivera, 33, was killed in the crash. Quintana was ejected from the vehicle and transported to KMC by air ambulance. Others hurt in the crash included Mary Zurcher Christian, 26, of Tensed; Stevie Klimpel, 26, of Butte, Mont.; and Cherie E. Lawson, 19, of St. Maries. No one in the vehicle was wearing a seatbelt.  The highway was blocked for five hours. You can read the ISP news release here.



D.F. Oliveria
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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