Six teens injured on Betz Road

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

Speed and narcotics may have led to an accident just north of Cheney that sent six Cheney High School students to area hospitals Friday night.

Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies received a call about 10:16 p.m. of a rollover on the 13700 block of Betz Road, about one-and-a-half miles north of its intersection with Washington Street. Upon arriving on scene they discovered a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder had apparently failed to negotiate a 90-degree curve at the top of the hill, struck a curve indicator sign, over-corrected and rolled off the roadway.

“That’s where they lost it...