One dead, one critically injured in fiery Boise car crash, police say
One person died and another was seriously injured in a single-vehicle car crash on the Boise Bench late Thursday night, according to a Boise Police Department news release.
Officials said police and Boise Fire Department responded to the intersection of Malad and Owyhee streets, where a woman had crashed a vehicle head-on into a median shortly after 10 p.m. When first responders arrived, the car was on fire.
Officials said evidence suggests the driver was headed southbound on Owyhee, toward a hill where the road winds over the New York Canal, at high speed. After she hit the median, the car caught fire.
Police said bystanders pulled the passenger, an adult man, from the vehicle before first responders arrived. Firefighters then removed the woman from the car as they extinguished the flames.
The driver and passenger were taken to local hospitals, where the driver died of injuries from the crash. The passenger remained in critical condition, police said. Neither person has been publicly identified.
Police said the Owyhee-Malad intersection remained closed while a crash reconstruction team investigated the site and cleaned up the scene.
This story was originally published July 3, 2024 at 8:46 AM.
