Idaho man dies after car plunges into Salmon River
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MISSOULA â Idaho State Police said a Salmon man who was critically injured when the car he was riding in plunged into the Salmon River has died at a Missoula hospital.
22-year-old Conner P. McGarrity had been taken by air ambulance to Missoula following the crash Monday evening along U.S. 93 south of Salmon just north of Ellis.
Troopers said he was driving the car, lost control as he was rounding a left hand curve, going off the right side of the road. ISP saidLarsen then over-corrected, driving across both lanes of travel, over the embankment and into the river.
A Salmon man died Tuesday after succumbing to wounds suffered in a car crash.Â
An Idaho State Police states Conner P. McGarrity, 22, was in a crash north of Ellis at 8:01 p.m. Monday. McGarrity was the passenger while Craig B. Larsen, 22, of Salmon, was driving.Â
The two were headed north when the road curved left. Larsen drove off the right side of the road while attempting to turn. Larsen reportedly overcorrected, driving through both lanes and driving into an embankment and overturning into Salmon River.Â
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The two were transported to Steele Memorial Medical Center in Salmon. McGarrity was later airlifted to another hospital in Missoula Hospital. State police announced he had died Tuesday afternoon.Â
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