How’s Your Driving? Pedestrian Hit by Landscape Truck in Idaho

The 21-year-old landscape truck driver was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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Officials are asking pedestrians and drivers to be extra alert in Ketchum, Idaho, after a woman was struck by a landscape truck Monday morning.

Deputies from the Ketchum Police Division of the Blaine County Sheriff's Office responded at around 11 a.m. to the intersection of 5th Street and Washington Avenue.

Officers determined that Betty A. Urbany, 56 of Bellevue, Idaho, was walking North in the crosswalk from the southeastern corner of the intersection when she was hit by a landscape truck. The truck was turning east onto 5th from the southbound lane of Washington.

The truck's driver, 21-year-old Jose Rangel Ponce of Hailey, Idaho, was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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