Weather sends motorists slipping and sliding

A somewhat unexpected period of freezing rain led to a number of accidents and motorist calls for assistance throughout Cheney late last week.

Over the Dec. 4-5 time period, Cheney police responded to 16 accidents and nine calls for assistance from motorists. Of those calls, two of the accidents were reportable while three of the non-reportable, “fender benders,” were single vehicle accidents, 10 were between two vehicles and one was a four-vehicle collision.

Of the nine calls for motorist assistance, usually incidents of being stuck somehow, one was a call involving six vehicles that had slid...