Three Hospitalized in Crash with Semi-truck South of Bellevue
BELLEVUE, Idaho (KLIX)-Three were sent to the hospital when the driver of an SUV failed to yield to an oncoming semi-truck on Idaho Highway 75 south of Bellevue Thursday.
According to the Blaine County Sheriff s Office, on May 18, emergency crews were called out at around 2:30 p.m. for a two-vehicle crash involving a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a semi-truck pulling two trailers at the intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and Idaho Highway 75, Timmerman Junction. The sheriff s office said 63-year-old Bomi Kang of Van Nuys, California had been headed east on U.S. 20 and failed to yield to the truck headed north on Idaho 75 and was hit.
One day after the United States recorded its deadliest day yet from COVID-19 cases, a prominent Wood River Valley doctor expressed heightened concern about rising case counts and life-threatening medical complications caused by the virus.
Dr. Frank Batcha, a physician and chief of staff for St. Lukeâs Wood River, said Thursday that an anticipated post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases in Blaine County has developed, with COVID-related hospitalizations increasing in recent days and two patients dying of COVID ailments.
The deaths, first reported by the state Department of Health and Welfare on Tuesday, were of a woman in her 70s and a man in his 90s, the eighth and ninth Blaine County patients to die of the disease. The South Central Public Health District stated that both patients had underlying conditions. Neither were residents in a long-term facility, according to the Health District, and neither were hospitalized prior to their deaths, St. Lukeâs said.