Update: Man arrested on warrants after crash closes Ninth Street
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The following is a news release from the Idaho Falls Police Department sent Wednesday at 3:20 p.m.
The Idaho Falls Police Department arrested a 20-year-old Idaho Falls man for two Bonneville County warrants following a multiple-vehicle crash Wednesday morning.
Nicholas Dursteler was booked into the Bonneville County Jail. The warrants are unrelated to the crash.
According to preliminary reports, Dursteler, who was driving a 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix east on Ninth Street, crashed into a white Nissan Maxima parked near St. Clair Road just after 7 a.m. Both vehicles then crashed into a third vehicle, a Ford F150.
The Grand Prix then crashed into multiple trees and fences. Ninth Street was temporarily closed between Terry Drive and St. Clair Road to traffic for a couple of hours as officers investigated the crash and cleaned up the debris from the wreckage spewed all over the street.
Dursteler’s passenger, a 21-year-old Blackfoot woman, was ejected from the vehicle. She was taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center to be treated.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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IDAHO FALLS — Idaho Falls Police have closed Ninth Street between Terry Drive and St. Clair Road after a crash involving multiple vehicles Wednesday morning.
A city spokeswoman said a man driving a four-door Pontiac Grand Prix hit three other parked vehicles and several trees.
“What happened is the car is heading eastbound, crosses over into the oncoming lanes of traffic, hits a parked car, that car gets divided out into the roadway, hitting another nearby vehicle, then comes up through into the grass, hits a tree, loses a tire, hits a second tree, does a spin, then comes back into the road. One of the tires that came off hit another car,” said Officer Brandon Harkness. “All in all, four cars were involved.”
Items from the car — including makeup, DVDs, clothes, a PlayStation 2, vinyl records (one of which was labeled “Live Life to the Fullest”) and trash in general — were all over the road, and police are requesting that people avoid the area.
The road will be closed for several hours.
According to the police, the Grand Prix carried two people, a man and woman. The woman, who was the passenger, was thrown out of the car on impact.
Their names have not been released.
Both were transported to EIRMC with injuries that were not life-threatening, and the crash is under investigation.
