Idaho multi-truck crash results in amputation

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http://www.cdapress.com/article/20170119/ARTICLE/170119740

Early in the morning of January 19, the following happened:

Truck 1. A semi jackknifed in the right-hand lane.

Truck 2. A logging truck moved into the left-hand lane and started slowing down to avoid the jackknifed semi.

Truck 3. Another semi started slowing down but wasn't able to stop, so he ran into the logging truck.

Truck 4. A fourth semi ran into the back of Trucks 2 and 3. It knocked the logs off Truck 2, which rolled into the cab of Truck 1, and shoved the Truck 2 vehicle into the median.

All four drivers were wearing seat belts.

Truck 4 was being team-driven. The driver was taken to the hospital in Coeur d'Alene with Serious injuries. His co-driver also received Serious injuries, but they were more serious than the first guy's were because he got taken to a hospital in Spokane with a better trauma center.

The driver of Truck 1 got pinned into the cab by the logs from Truck 2. The only way they could get him out was to fly a medical team from Coeur d'Alene and amputate the guy's right leg. The Idaho State Police said this was the first time this ever happened in North Idaho, and it only happens about five times a year anywhere in the country.