Four injured in three-car-crash

KOOTENAI — Four people were injured Friday morning in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 200.

Idaho State Police said Joseph J. Sagerer was turning onto the highway at Humbird Lane and pulled out in front of traffic. Cathie S. Burley was driving westbound in a Mazda sedan and struck Sagerer's Subaru Legacy. Burley's sedan glanced off the Subaru and wound up in the eastbound lane, where it collided head-on with a Wes Olson logging truck, ISP said.

Northside firefighters and other emergency responders had to cut away the wreckage of the Mazda so Burley could be pulled from it.

Burley, 36, of Ponderay, was taken to Bonner General Hospital. State police said Burley's injuries were serious, but not life-threatening.

Two of Burley's passengers — 18-year-old Shawn E. Burley and 41-year-old Robin J. Belden — were also taken to BGH, where they were treated and released.

Arlan J. Gooley, the 43-year-old Priest River who was driving the Kenworth logging truck, was also treated and released, according to ISP. The empty truck he was driving plowed into a drainage ditch paralleling the highway.

Sagerer, an 86-year-old Kootenai resident, was not injured in the 9:30 a.m. crash, state police said. He was cited for failing to yield.