Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Final Update: Fatal Crash NB I15 Near Fort Hall

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Idaho State Police
District 5 5205 South 5th Ave.
Pocatello, Idaho 83204-2299
(208) 236-6466 FAX: (208) 236-6068

For Immediate Release: 10/02/13 9:30 am

Please direct questions to the District Office

*****Final Update****

On October 2, 2013 at 3:16 am, Idaho State Police investigated a one vehicle fatality crash northbound on I15 at mile marker 82.4, north of the Fort Hall Casino.

Dorothy D. Harris, 26 of Blackfoot, was traveling northbound on I15 in a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am when she drove off the left shoulder of the road and into the median. Harris drove back onto the roadway and overcorrected causing the vehicle to slide into the median where it overturned and rolled coming to rest in the southbound lanes of travel.

Harris was not wearing her seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle where she succumbed from her injures. Harris' toddler son, who was also in the vehicle and in an approved child safety seat, was transported by ground ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center.

The southbound lanes of travel were blocked for about three hours.


*********Update**********

Both southbound lanes are open on I15 from milemarkers 89 to 80.

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At this time Idaho State Police is investigating a fatal crash northbound Interstate 15 at milepost 82.5, near Fort Hall. Both southbound lanes are currently blocked from milepost 80 to 89. More information will be given when it becomes available.

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