**UPDATE – traffic starting to move** Highway blocked for fatality crash near Craters of the Moon

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IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE

District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000

Fax (208) 324-7897

For Immediate Release: 2/9/2017 – 3:10 p.m.

Please direct questions to the District Office

***UPDATE***

Traffic is being moved through the scene of this crash intermittently as tow trucks continue their work to remove the vehicles involved.

***END OF UPDATE***

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Idaho State Police and the Blaine County Sheriff's deputies are currently on scene of a fatality crash involving two commercial vehicles on U.S. Highway 20-26-93 at milepost 222, between Carey and Craters of the Moon.

The highway is currently blocked, but should reopen to at least one lane of traffic soon.

This news release will be updated when traffic is moving again. More details about the crash will be released at a later time.

SC/KB

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Posted in District 4 - Southern Idaho