Woman dies in Post Falls accident
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 9 years, 5 months AGO
<p>Crews from Kootenai County Fire and Rescue work the scene of a two-car collision occurred Monday afternoon near the intersection of Pleasant View Road and Prairie Avenue in Post Falls. According to a Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, a woman in the passenger vehicle died from injuries sustained in the accident.</p>
POST FALLS - A woman died following a two-vehicle collision Monday afternoon near Pleasantview Road and Prairie Avenue in Post Falls.
At 5:30 p.m., a passenger car traveling east on Prairie failed to yield at a stop sign to a southbound passenger car on Pleasantview, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office reported.
The southbound car avoided the collision, but the driver lost control of his vehicle and slid sideways into the northbound lane of traffic, deputies reported. The passenger side of the vehicle struck the front of a largemotorhome.
A female passenger suffered severe injuries in the crash, and later died after she was transferred to Kootenai Health, deputies reported. The driver also was transferred to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The occupants of the motor home were not injured.
Names, ages and hometowns of the victims were not being released Monday night, a sheriff's office spokesman said. The accident remains under investigation.
