Texas driver injured in interstate crash

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

A 25-year-old Texas man was injured when he rear-ended a semi on the Hammett hill on I-84 Saturday.

According to Idaho State Police, Ernesto Madrigal, 49 of Paul, was traveling westbound in a 2007 Mack semi and was traveling uphill at a slow speed with his emergency lights on, when for unknown reasons, Quentin Schmieding, of Denton, Texas, driving a 2007 Volkswagon Jetta and who also was traveling westbound, struck Madrigal's vehicle in the rear.

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