Cheney driver critically injured after slamming into trailer-load of pipes

Whatever it was that led Karla Durangonzales to look down and to her left caused her a lot of pain and misery - and likely spared her life.

The 30-year-old Cheney resident was driving north on Second Street around 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning, April 9, when her car, a 1995 Honda Civic, drifted to the right and slammed head-on into a load of iron pipes loaded on a flatbed trailer hooked to a 2005 GMC pickup parked behind Mitchell's Harvest Foods. The pipes encased the car's cab, with several driven through the windshield and a couple exiting out the back window.

Cheney Police Chief John Hensley s...

 

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