North Idaho College men's basketball coaches were circled up near the shoulder of the Cheney-Tyler exit off Interstate 90 west of Spokane early Thursday morning, waiting for a tow truck to pull their disabled vehicle out of the right lane of the interstate.

Headed to Portland on a recruiting trip, Corey Symons, the program's head coach, had struck a deer around 4:50 a.m. in a 2016 Dodge Durango, a collision which didn't result in any injuries for the five male passengers.

But while the men waited for the tow truck driver to get the disabled Durango into neutral — the vehicle locked up upon deployment of its airbags — a westbound 2001 Jeep Cherokee driven by 23-year-old Matthew H. Seay of Deer Park, Wash., swerved to the right and struck assistant coaches George Swanson and Chris Kemp/Ryan Collingwood, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.