AM Scanner Traffic — 2/10/09

• 11:28 a.m. Bonner County coroner and a wrecker are having difficulty getting to the Granite Hill crash site as a result of the backed-up traffic.
• 11:25 a.m. S&S Herb reports that Time-Warner is down throughout the area.
• 11:20 a.m. A 40-something woman has hurt herself in a fall at a Hayden RV sales yard, 20789 N. Highway 95.
• 10:41 a.m. ISP officer on scene of crash (which now has been established as 2 miles north of the Kootenai/Bonner county line, calls for the Bonner County coroner. This may be a two-vehicle accident with one vehicle coming to rest on its top.
• 10:33 a.m. EMT at scene of Granite Hill crash scene calls in Med-Star helicopter.
• 10:19 a.m. A possible fatal accident has occurred at the bottom of Granite Hill on US 95 (near the Bonner/Kootenai county line). One R/P reports a double fatality with a third person seriously injured after a single-vehicle rollover. It’s also possible that two unconscious individuals are trapped in the car.

8:47 a.m. At first, an ISP officer thought there was an accident ahead of him in the e/b lanes of I-90. But he later discovered that the stoplights at NW Boulevard were causing traffic back-up.

8:33 a.m. City worker calls for sand near the Coeur d’Alene Library b/c slick roads are causing motorists to slide and spinoff there.

8:15 a.m. ISP patrol officer: ‘The stretch from Plummer to Worley is extremely icy.’