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Background: Law enforcement officers analyse the fatal clang connected U.S. Highway 12 successful the country of Kooskia, Idaho (Idaho State Police). Inset: Neale Brewer (Idaho County Jail).
A pistillate is accused of mowing down 3 motorcyclists with her pickup truck arsenic she tried to walk different conveyance successful a no-passing portion on an Idaho highway.
Neale Brewer, 60, has been charged with 3 counts of vehicular manslaughter, according to Idaho County jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime. She is being held successful jailhouse without bond.
The Idaho County Coroner's Office has identified the 3 victims arsenic 35-year-old Ethan Powers, 45-year-old Jeremy Coleman, and 26-year-old Nathan McCormick.
At astir 4 p.m. connected Tuesday, Brewer was driving a 2019 Ford F-150 westbound connected U.S. Highway 12 successful the country of Kooskia, Idaho. Powers, Coleman, and McCormick were besides connected the roadworthy connected their motorcycles.
A photograph released by Idaho State Police shows it is simply a two-lane roadworthy with a waterway connected 1 broadside and mountains each around.
Police said a preliminary probe indicates that Brewer tried to walk different conveyance "in a marked no-passing zone." She "crossed the treble yellowish centerline and collided" with the 3 motorcyclists traveling eastbound.
The 3 motorcyclists died astatine the scene. Police said successful their property merchandise connected Wednesday that the Idaho County Coroner's Office would find the nonstop origin and mode of deaths.
Brewer was brought to a section infirmary to beryllium treated, and erstwhile she was released, she was arrested and booked into jail.
U.S. Highway 12 was closed for much than six hours, authorities noted, arsenic investigators cleared the tract and gathered evidence. The clang is inactive nether investigation.
Kooskia, Idaho, sits successful the northwestern portion of the state, astir 220 miles northbound of the superior metropolis of Boise.
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