POCATELLO — Two people were transported to Portneuf Medical Center with minor injuries after their truck was struck by a moose along Interstate 86 near the Highway 30 exit in Pocatello.
Idaho State Police Cpl. Chris Baker said the flatbed Dodge 2500 pickup, which has Montana plates, was eastbound on I-86 and had just passed the Highway 30 exit shortly after 8 p.m. when it was struck by the moose. The car then slid off the interstate into the median where it rolled once.
“There were two occupants,” Baker said. “Both were transported with minor injuries.”
Baker, who wasn’t the investigating officer, had few additional details. He did say, however that the same moose likely hit a car just a few minutes earlier in the same area. That car was not so severely damaged and the driver pulled off I-86 at the Chubbuck exit, making his way to the Walgreen’s parking lot where he called emergency services to report the incident.
The moose, which Baker estimates was a two- to three-year old male, was killed in the incident. The carcass was removed by Fort Hall Fish and Game.
Uncertain just how the moose hit the pickup, Baker theorizes by looking at the damage, that the moose hit the truck on the driver’s side.
Idaho State Police were still investigating the incident at press time and no further details were available.
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deskjockey, the deer hit your son's car but didn't total it or cause it to roll. If the moose had it this truck the damage would have been less.
kkerbaugh, glad to hear your grandparents are doing well. Interesting that the moose was already dead and in the road. Reading the article again, I see the "car" slide off the road after hitting the moose, then rolled. Apparently for the writer and the editor cars and trucks are all the same.
This was my grandfather's truck and him and my grandmother were driving home from visiting us in Reno,Nv. The truck was a 3500. He is the best driver ever. The moose was already dead in the road, it was hit by another driver, that had not yet reported that they had hit the moose. After spending a couple nights in the hospital they are now home in Montana and doing okay. We are just thankful they are okay, and for the Idaho Highway Patrol as well as the EMTs that helped in this accident.
Not true. My son was driving down a road when a deer jumped out of the bushes and hit the side of his pickup, taking the mirror off and denting the passenger door before hitting the panel in front of the rear bumper and denting that also. He did not hit the deer, the deer hit him.
Yeah, you need to fix that. The truck hit the moose not the moose hit the truck.
A truck was struck by a moose? Seems that the truck hit the moose. Is not the faster object the one considered to have stuck or hit a slower object?
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