I-15 northbound lane near Blackfoot reopens

On Thursday, July 30, 2015, at approximately 4:00 a.m., Idaho State Police investigated an injury crash on Interstate 15, near milepost 99, north of Blackfoot.

Edward Neal, 34, of Elko, Nevada was driving southbound on Interstate 15, near milepost 99, in a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am. Neal drove off the right shoulder of the road, came back onto the roadway, and then drove off the left shoulder of the roadway, and into the median. The vehicle rolled from the median into the northbound lanes of travel, ejecting Neal. The vehicle came to rest in the northbound travel lane.

Donald F. Gavin, 54, of Idaho Falls, ID, was driving northbound on Interstate 15 in a 2007 Freightliner pulling triple trailers. Gavin’s truck struck Neal’s unoccupied vehicle.

Neal was not wearing a seatbelt. He was transported by ground ambulance to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Gavin was wearing a seatbelt. He was not injured.

Northbound traffic was diverted at the north Blackfoot Exit onto US 91. The northbound lanes of Interstate 15 were blocked for approximately five hours. All lanes of travel have now been re-opened.

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Information provided by Idaho State Police.