Two crashes on Saturday afternoon—one in the Warm Springs area near Ketchum and the other mid-valley—resulted in a total of five hospitalizations and no loss of life, the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday.
Deputies first responded around 12:22 p.m. on Dec. 9 to a two-vehicle, head-on crash on Warm Springs Road near Board Ranch.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, a 39-year-old Ketchum man was headed west in a 2011 Ford F-150 truck with two other passengers when a 29-year-old Ketchum man headed the opposite direction in a 2016 Land Rover negotiated a curve and began to slide on the ice.
The F-150 attempted to break (sic) but also began to slide. The two vehicles collided head-on,” the Sheriff’s Office stated.
All four people involved in the crash were taken to St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center near Ketchum for “non-life-threatening injuries,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. Both vehicles were heavily damaged and towed from the scene, and icy road conditions were listed as a factor in the crash.
About five hours later, first responders from numerous local fire and EMS agencies were called to a two-vehicle crash on state Highway 75 just south of the East Fork Road intersection where southbound traffic merges from two lanes to one.
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