Accounts of crash vary
Keith KINNAIRD<br | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 15 years, 3 months AGO
SANDPOINT — A Clark Fork woman is facing a reckless driving charge following a two-vehicle crash on Highway 200 on Sunday.
Mackenzie Snow Quiroz was arrested on suspicion of felony assault following the crash, but by Monday the charge had been reduced to misdemeanor reckless driving, according to court documents.
An Idaho State Police report is marked by disharmony among witness accounts of the 4 p.m. collision near Denton Slough.
Witnesses at a roadside pullout told a trooper they saw two westbound vehicles driving abreast when one struck the other, causing both cars to spin off the highway and crash. One of those witnesses described the contact as the same maneuver law officers use to immobilize a fleeing vehicle.
The defendant’s husband, who was driving the vehicle Quiroz struck, told the trooper his wife pulled alongside him to get him to pull over, but oncoming traffic appeared. She fell back into the westbound lane, where she struck his car and caused the spinout, the man told the trooper.
Quiroz, meanwhile, said she went to pass her husband, but he would not allow her to overtake him, the report said. She told the trooper that their cars collided when they both applied their brakes at the same time.
Although the collision followed an argument between the husband and wife in Clark Fork, Quiroz denied that she meant to hurt him, the report said.
Judge Debra Heise released Quiroz on her own recognizance on Monday and ordered to have no contact with her husband, court records show.
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