In brief: Three injured in crash on Highway 395
Three people were injured Friday when two cars crashed on U.S. Highway 395 in Addy, Wash.
Kimberley A. Moorhead, of Colville, will face a charge of second-degree negligent driving for causing the accident at 2 p.m., police said.
Moorhead, 35, was northbound on the highway in a 2004 Suzuki Verona when she rear-ended a 1990 Mercury Sable driven by Jenie M. Jones, 26, of Colville. Jones was also northbound, but she had stopped her car to make a left turn into a private driveway when Moorhead ran into her, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Jones and her passengers, 1-year-old Jalah Jones and 3-year-old Joshua Jones, were injured. Jones and the girl were transported to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane via Medstar. Jenie Jones was in satisfactory condition Friday; Jalah was in critical condition, a nursing supervisor said. Joshua Jones was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chewelah. His condition was not available Friday night.
Moorhead was not injured.
A pilot and his passenger walked away from a plane crash Friday caused by a failure to lower the plane’s landing gear.
Kent M. Pope and his passenger, Trevor K. Pope, were not injured after Kent Pope landed the aircraft on its belly at Coeur d’Alene Airport’s Pappy Boyington Field about 3 p.m. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department and Kootenai County Fire and Rescue responded to the scene. The plane suffered only minor damage, and the airport experienced only minor delays, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The Federal Aviation Administration was notified, police said.
Radioactive rabbit trapped at Hanford
RICHLAND – A radioactive rabbit was trapped on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, but there is no sign any people were exposed to the animal.
Washington state Health Department workers with the Office of Radiation Protection have been searching for contaminated rabbit droppings. None has been found in areas accessible to the public, regional director Earl Fordham said Thursday.
Officials suspect the rabbit sipped some water left from the recent demolition of a Cold War-era building used in the production of nuclear weapons, the Tri-City Herald reported Friday.
Contaminated animals occasionally are found at the nuclear reservation, but more often they are in the center of Hanford, far from town.
The rabbit trapped at the 300 Area caught the Health Department’s attention because it was close enough to the site’s boundaries to potentially come in contact with people.