Crash Injuries Claim Sandpoint Driver

A 69-year-old Sandpoint woman has died as a result of injuries she suffered when a deer hit by another vehicle crashed through her window near western city limits of Sandpoint Monday morning. Judith Linker died at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane Wednesday afternoon. Linker was westbound in her 2009 Toyota Scion when a deer emerging from a ditch was hit by eastbound Keith Nicholas, 37, of Libby, Mont. Linker’s vehicle swerved off the road after deer crashed through the window, sheered off a power pole, and came to a stop on the other side of a creek. Linker was airlifted to Sacred Heart.