Highway crashes injure four people

SANDPOINT — Four people were injured in separate crashes on U.S. Highway 95 on Saturday, according to state police.

Colin Christopher Mangus was seriously injured after striking a moose carcass in Elmira at about 1 p.m., Idaho State Police said. Mangus, a 20-year-old Bonners Ferry resident, was northbound when he veered across the southbound lane and hit the dead animal.

State police said Mangus' lost control of the 1985 Chevrolet Camaro he was driving and it overturned. Also injured in the crash was Ethan Z. Mangus-Wheeler, age not listed.

Both were taken to Bonner General Hospital and then flown to Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene via a Northwest MedStar helicopter. State police said it was unclear if they were wearing seat belts.

A 23-year-old Moscow man and a passenger were injured several hours later after another driver rear-ended their car and pushed it into oncoming traffic, where it was struck.

Patrick D. Brown-Hayes was southbound on U.S. 95 and attempting to make a left turn near Bottle Bay Road, ISP said. Another southbound vehicle driven by Flint N. Ingersoll slammed into the rear of Brown-Hayes' Chevy pickup truck. The collision caused the pickup to slide sideways into the flow of northbound traffic.

The 2:45 p.m. crash injured Brown-Hayes and his passenger, 21-year-old Sarah Petrie of Lewiston. All three people involved in the crash were wearing seat belts, state police said.

Brown-Hayes and Petrie were taken to Bonner General. Ingersoll, a 44-year-old from Castle Rock, Colo. was ticketed for inattentive driving.