Back-Seat Sex Blamed for SUV Crash

A carnival worker who hit a telephone pole with his SUV blamed the crash on two friends having sex in the back seat.

Joshua D. Frank, who had been living on the Latah County Fairgrounds, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. He was fined $188.

Frank told Moscow police he was driving near downtown early Saturday while a man and woman were having sex in the rear of the vehicle. According to a probable cause affidavit, he said the movement caused the SUV to become "tippy" and he lost control of it.

Frank, 22, suffered a minor head wound in the crash and his friends were treated for unspecified injuries, according to the affidavit.