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Seattle woman killed in rollover
A Seattle, Wash., woman was killed on I-84 last Friday, when the vehicle in which she was a passenger left the road at milepost 111 and rolled, ejecting her.
The 2000 Jeep, driven by Bennie Kirby, also of Seattle, landed on top of Denis Braxton, crushing her. Passersby who saw the accident reportedly stopped to help move the vehicle off her.
Rescue and ambulance crews worked on her at the scene, before she was taken by air ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival there, from the injuries she sustained in the accident.
Kirby and Braxton were traveling from Seattle to Memphis, Tenn., when the accident happened, at about 11 a.m. that day.
Authorities said the vehicle left the road just as the curve leading to the Hammett exit begins. It then hit the shoulder of the road, Kirby overcorrected, and the vehicle rolled at least once. Braxton was not wearing a seat belt when she was ejected from the vehicle.
Kirby, who was wearing a seat belt, sustained minor injuries in the crash and was treated and released later that night from Elmore Memorial.
It was the third fatality on I-84 in Elmore County in as many weeks, and was the first in Idaho during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Although milepost 111 is a wide, sweeping curve with good visibility, authorities noted that it is often the scene of many fatal accidents in the county, most involving people who go off the side of the road, overcorrect, and then roll their vehicles. Sheriff's deputies noted that the section between milepost 112 and 108 is historically the most dangerous part of I-84 through Elmore County.
The Braxton fatality wasn't the only accident in Elmore County over the holiday. Sheriff's department deputies responded to six other incidents, of varying degrees of seriousness, during the July 2-5 period. Complete reports were not immediately available.