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CdA cop avoids head-on freeway crash

A Coeur d’Alene police officer responding to a domestic violence stabbing had to swerve to avoid a wrong-way - and allegedly drunk - driver on Interstate 90 last weekend.

Officer J. Noble crashed into a concrete barrier while eastbound on the freeway about 9 p.m. Sunday when he saw a driver later identified as Jodi L. Warner, 43, alias Jodi Turbin, headed westbound in his lan, according to the Coeur d’Alene Police Department.

Warner, of Post Falls, continued driving the wrong way on I-90 until crashing into a guard rail near Atlas Road, where she was arrested, police said.

Warnerwas booked into the Kootenai County Jail on charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident and is out on

bond. Noble scraped his arm during the crash, police said.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Sirens & Gavels." Read all stories from this blog