No injuries in rollover accident
<p>Elsie Buttice holds her 3-month-old granddaughter as emergency crews investigate a roll-over accident at the corner of Third Street and Locust Avenue Monday in Coeur d’Alene. Buttice, her daughter-in-law and granddaughter escaped the vehicle without injury and with the help of a witness of the crash after the SUV came to rest on its side following a collision with another SUV.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - A mother and her 3-month-old baby were temporarily trapped in her car Monday morning in a rollover accident at the intersection of Third Street and Locust Avenue.
Janell Haines, 28, of Ponderay was traveling westbound on Locust Avenue around 11 a.m. and did not notice the stop sign at the Third Street intersection.
"When I realized I had a stop sign, it was too late," Haines said. "I saw the other car coming so I stepped on it, and I am glad I did, otherwise she would have hit right where my baby was sitting."
Another vehicle was traveling south on Third Street and struck Haines' vehicle in the rear passenger side, which spun it around before it flipped onto its side, trapping the passengers inside.
Haines said a passerby stopped to help her and her baby from the car. Haines' mother-in-law, Elsie Buttice, was also a passenger in the car. All escaped without injury.
More details were unavailable at press time, Coeur d'Alene Police said.