Two injured in crash with semi
Emergency medical personnel prepare to load a crash victim into an ambulance following a collision on Fifth Avenue on Wednesday. (Photo by KEITH KINNAIRD)
SANDPOINT — Two people were injured Wednesday afternoon after the car they were in collided with a tractor-trailer on Fifth Avenue north of Larch Street.
Idaho State Police said Sheri L. Kuhlman pulled her Pontiac Grand Am into the path of the semi shortly before 1:30 p.m. The tractor-trailer T-boned the Pontiac and both occupants had to be extricated from the wreckage.
Kuhlman, 40, and passenger Evelyn J. Griffin, 69, were wearing seat belts. Both were taken to Bonner General Hospital, according to ISP.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, 63-year-old Albert L. Argabright of Whitefish, Mont., was also wearing a seat belt and escaped injury, state police said.
The directions of travel were not disclosed in an ISP news release, although Argabright’s semi appeared to have been in the left-hand southbound lane of Fifth. Witnesses at the scene said the Pontiac was apparently entering Fifth from the west side of the road.
The crash remains under investigation.