Former co-owner of the Hungry Horse News dies in crash; driving wrong-way on Interstate
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The former co-owner of the Hungry Horse News was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 90 near Anaconda.
Carol Pollock Kennedy, 57, of Columbia Falls and 26-year-old Osiris Munoz Riffo of Woodland Hills, California, died in the crash Sept 28. Riffo was a passenger in the other vehicle.
Kennedy and her husband, Brian, operated the Hungry Horse News together from 1982 to 1999 and became sole owners in 1987. The Montana Highway Patrol says Kennedy was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes when the two vehicles collided. Kennedy’s car caught fire, the Montana Standard in Butte reported.
Trooper Joseph Fowler says the driver of the second vehicle, a 25-year-old woman from Van Nuys, California, was hospitalized in critical condition in Butte.
Investigators are still trying to determine why Kennedy was driving on the wrong side of the interstate.
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