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Driver killed in North Fork crash identified

Ryan Murray | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 3 months AGO
by Ryan Murray
| June 7, 2015 10:00 PM

An Omaha, Nebraska, man who died in a head on car crash Saturday afternoon near Columbia Falls has been identified as 68-year-old Timothy R. Fangman.

Fangman was driving a Toyota 4Runner northbound on the North Fork Road just north of Columbia Falls when the collision occurred.

Tom Manz, the Montana Highway Trooper investigating the crash, said it appeared one driver drifted into the other lane in the 45-mph zone. The other driver, in a Dodge 1500 pickup truck, was treated for minor injuries at the scene.

According to a press release from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office, Fangman was wearing a seatbelt, but the collision was directly head-on, and the larger truck crunched in the Toyota’s front.

The collision occurred at approximately 3:15 p.m. at mile marker two.

Manz said the investigation was ongoing, so it was still unknown if alcohol or speed was a factor in the collision.

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