In brief: Four injured when vehicles hit two moose in Idaho

INKOM, Idaho – Four people were injured after three vehicles hit two moose on Interstate 15 in southeastern Idaho.

The Idaho State Police said Tyler Winiecke, 26, of Provo, Utah, was traveling northbound on I-15 south of Inkom when his vehicle hit a moose just after 11:15 p.m. Thursday. Rebecca Richins, of Rigby, also was northbound when her vehicle hit a second moose. Then a vehicle driven by Stephanie Chamberlain, 27, of Salt Lake City, collided with the carcass of one of the animals.

Winiecke and his passenger, along with Richins and her passenger, were taken to the hospital in Pocatello.

Train derails, sends three cars into river

MISSOULA – A freight train derailed Thursday in Western Montana, sending three cars carrying aircraft components down a steep embankment and into the Clark Fork River.

Montana Rail Link spokeswoman Lynda Frost said 19 cars from a westbound train derailed about 10 miles west of Alberton. No injuries were reported.

Thirteen of the cars that derailed were carrying freight, mostly aircraft parts with some soybeans and denatured alcohol. Six were empty. Frost said the alcohol didn’t leak and no soybeans spilled. She said crews were working to remove the aircraft parts from the water.