Priest River woman dies in Rathdrum crash

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a roll-over crash that killed Crystal Jacboson, 33, of Priest River early Friday. 

Just before 4 a.m., the sheriff’s office reports that deputies responded to a report of an injury crash northwest of Rathdrum.

According to investigators, a 1997 Chevrolet pickup that was traveling southbound on Nelson Loop Road, left the road and rolled several times down the embankment. 

When officers arrived at the scene, they found the pickup resting on its driver’s side with Jacobson pinned underneath. 

She was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Robert Dickerson, 34, of Post Falls, was a passenger in the truck. He told deputies he and the female victim had been driving in the area and headed down the hill when the vehicle left the roadway and the pickup began to roll.

Once the truck stopped rolling, an uninjured Dickerson was able to climb out and go for help, the release states.

The results of the autopsy and toxicology screening will not be available for “several weeks,” but alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash.