Tacoma man dies after patrol car collision

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, June 1, 2002

SEATTLE — An elderly Tacoma man whose pickup collided with a Pierce County sheriff’s patrol car died Saturday morning, a nursing supervisor at Harborview Medical Center said.

Norman Pribnow, 75, was flown to Harborview from St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma late Friday.

The accident occurred about 8:45 p.m. in Parkland as a sheriff’s deputy was responding to a call for backup from a fellow deputy handling an unrelated case of a man with a gun, KING-TV reported.

With the patrol car’s lights flashing and sirens blaring, the deputy pulled into the oncoming lane, smashing into the pickup Pribnow was driving.

The man apparently didn’t see the deputy’s flashing lights or hear the sirens, Lt. Dave Hall said.

The deputy, whose name was not released, was treated for minor injuries.

Oregon

"She feels terrible:" A La Pine woman will serve six months in jail for leaving her children, ages 4 to 12, in a motel room for four days while she went to California. Richarda "Cara" Lynn Clinkscales, 31, was sentenced Friday in Deschutes County Court. Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney Kandy Gies said Clinkscales left her children at Sonoma Lodge on Feb. 14 and told the desk clerk she was studying for a college exam and did not want to be disturbed. The next day, the motel clerk noticed that Clinkscales had been gone all day and called Bend police. Clinkscales’ attorney, Cindy Spencer, said Clinkscales thought a man she had known for six months would take care of the children so she could go with her boyfriend to see his dying brother. "You cannot entrust children to someone you have known for six months. She feels terrible," Spencer said.

From Herald news services