Two injured after truck drives off freeway

Twin brothers from Arizona were seriously injured Sunday afternoon after the truck they were driving in careened off Interstate 84 at the Exit 95 overpass and landed on Highway 20.

The vehicle occupants had to be extricated by rescue crews and were then flown by helicopter to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise for treatment.

Driver Gary D. Mallicoat and passenger Jerry Mallicoat, of Prescott, Ariz., were traveling eastbound on I-84 when they drifted off the road just before the overpass.

The vehicle hit a guardrail and tumbled down the embankment before ending up on the south side of the underpass on Hwy. 20, traveling close to 500 feet before landing upright.

The truck, a 1996 Dodge Ram, was pulling a cargo trailer that contained a racing car and the brothers reportedly had recently been at the race track in Meridian.

Elmore County Deputy Bill Detweiler thought that the driver may have fallen asleep, based on his investigation of the accident scene.

Detweiler said that the airbags in the truck deployed and both men were wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.Their condition is unknown at this time.