In brief: Spokane County Raceway to host NW Grand Prix

About 125 entries are expected for this weekend’s Northwest Grand Prix at the Spokane County Raceway.

The International Conference of Sports Car Clubs event, which starts at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, will feature vehicles as varied as open-wheel formula racers and stock cars.

Tickets, available at the gate or through TicketsWest, cost $15 a day or $25 for both days.

Some of the proceeds will go to the Parkinson’s Resource Center of Spokane, and active-duty military personnel will be admitted free with identification.

Other weekend events at the raceway include a Custom Car and Hot Rod Show Saturday and a Porsche Club Sports Car Show on Sunday.

More information is available at www.spokane countyraceway.com.

Mother in court following crash

Police say a Spokane mother who caused a car crash last month removed her injured child from the scene before medics arrived because she feared getting in trouble.

Tamika L. Hill, 28, appeared in Superior Court on Thursday on a charge of second-degree criminal mistreatment and two counts of vehicular assault for a June 27 crash at North Ralph Street and East Upriver Drive that injured her passenger, Andrew Neil Powell, and her young daughter, identified by the initials T.W.

A woman who witnessed the crash said she arrived to find Powell unconscious and bleeding, but Hill repeatedly asked her not to call the police, according to court documents.

The woman said that the inside of Hill’s Ford Escort smelled like alcohol and that Hill called someone to pick up her daughter. The woman pleaded with Hill to keep her daughter at the scene because she appeared to be injured, but Hill refused “saying that she could get in trouble,” according to court documents. The child was driven from the scene by an unknown person, the woman told police.

Police later learned the child had been treated for minor injuries at Holy Family Hospital.