PM Scanner Traffic — 11.18.11

• 5:42 p.m. PFPD officer reports w/b traffic on Seltice Way is backed up to Huetter.
• 5:40 p.m. PFPD officer reports entire length of Poleline is sheer ice & asks that streets crews sand the roundabout at Spokane.
• 5:30 p.m. Coeur d’Alene Police Department activities report for Nov. 17-18 here.
• 5:20 p.m. W/B Seltice Way, from Bay to 4th/PF, is blocked by 4 vehicles that are stuck on icy roads. PFPD officer reports that he has closed down this stretch of Seltice Way.
• 5:17 p.m. Seltice Way overpass on I-90 down to 2 lanes w/vehicles stuck on icy roadway.
• 5:13 p.m. Woman on Banning nervous b/c hasn’t didn’t show for work & she has found his gun missing and door to bathroom locked upon returning home. She hopes he hasn’t harmed himself.
• 5:08 p.m. 2 semis are spun out, one jackknifed, south of Mica Hill, H95 @ M/P 526.
• 4:54 p.m. Wholesale Sporting Goods, 3534 Govt Way/CdA, reports 3 suspicious men in store.
• 4:53 p.m. Vehicle may have slid into Auto Zone building, near Govt Way & Appleway.
• 4:49 p.m. Someone is locked out of a running vehicle @ Mullan Trail Elementary.
• 4:41 p.m. ITD employee reports he can’t get loader out of Wolf Lodge garage b/c someone dropped the door on the bucket & equipment is stuck until the door is fixed.
• 4:40 p.m. ISPer tells dispatcher to call Avista worker & say her boyfriend is stuck on 4th of July Pass.
• 4:35 p.m. Resident in 300 block of Military Drive/Fortgrounds reports a house burglary.
• 4:32 p.m. 3-vehicle crash is blocking w/b onramp @ I-90 & M/P 14 (15th St/CdA).
• 4:21 p.m. E/B I-90 over 4th of July now open but extremely icy, reports snowplow operator.
• 4:20 p.m. Coeur d’Alene streets worker reports sand or de-icer need at every intersection.
• 4:12 p.m. 2 slide-off crashes reported on w/b I-90 @ M/P 3 (Pleasantview) & 5 (Spokane/PF).
• 3:56 p.m. A red Jeep has gone down an embankment off a side road to Lancaster/Hayden.
• 18 more items below (including I-90 crashes & blockage) + AM Scanner Traffic link

• 3:45 p.m. E/B I-90 is shut from M/P 15 (Sherman Avenue/CdA) on.
• 3:42 p.m. ISP officer wants press release, saying driving on I-90 is extremely hazardous.
• 3:32 p.m. Dispatch tells new ISP officer coming on duty to get up to 4th of July: “There’s so much going on their that we need just need bodies to clean it up.”
• 3:16 p.m. Sounds as though 4th of July Pass is completely blocked in both directions, MP 25.5-26.
• 3:11 p.m. Caller reports a large limb is down on Lacey near Government Way/Hayden.
• 2:55 p.m. Toyota 4Runner w/woman & child inside is blocking e/b I-90 @ M/P 17 (east of Sherman/CdA) after wheel falls off vehicle. (Update: Freeway now is blocked in area of crash)
• 2:45 p.m. ISP officer whose vehicle was rear-ended on 4th of July Pass b/n M/P 29-30 after he stopped to check slide-off involving 2 semis sez pass is “a mess.” Dozens of vehicles are spun out.
• 2:29 p.m. 2 semis have slid off on 4th of July Pass on I-90 @ M/P 29.5, blocking w/b lanes.
• 2:27 p.m. 2 vehicles have slide off H41 on Seasons hill. Unknown if there are injures.
• 2:25 p.m. An unoccupied VW is parked in middle of extremely icy H97 @ M/P 92.5 (Beauty Bay Hill).
• 2:14 p.m. Fed Ex driver reports man standing in middle of undisclosed road, flipping him off.
• 1:53 p.m. Plow driver on I-90 reports: “It’s dumping pretty good on 4th of July.”
• 1:36 p.m. A male won’t let female leave for work in 1200 block of N9th/CdA.
• 1:31 p.m. PF Middle School counselor reports girl being “rough-housed” at home by brothers.
• 1:17 p.m. A stalled compact car is parked over fog line @ I-90 & Huetter, partly blocking highway.
• 1:16 p.m. Caller reports an unwanted person in 2300 block of N8th St/CdA.
• 12:41 p.m. 2 accidents reported within 1 mile of each other on H95 @ M/P 450-451 (Bonner County line) — a truck slide-off and a non-injury vehicle crash in which 1 vehicle spun to stop n/b in s/b lanes.
• 12:25 p.m. 4 drunk transients are causing a problem at state liquor store @ Govt & Appleway/CdA.
• AM Scanner Traffic