Pedestrian killed on rural road in Bingham County

BLACKFOOT — A 24-year-old Blackfoot man was killed by a conveyance connected a agrarian roadworthy successful Bingham County Friday.

The Bingham County Sheriff’s Office responded to a pedestrian versus conveyance clang astatine astir 11 a.m. successful nan area of 62 East connected 200 North (Weeding Lane), according to a sheriff’s agency news release. The area is astir half a mile eastbound of U.S. Highway 91.

Upon arriving astatine nan scene, deputies learned Paul R. Dreher had been struck by a achromatic 1997 Jeep Wrangler driven by Julie Marlow, a mid-50s aged female from Blackfoot. Officials opportunity nan Jeep was walking westbound and encountered visibility issues caused by atom harvest occurring successful nan adjacent fields.

Dreher had been assisting successful those agriculture operations erstwhile he crossed nan roadworthy and was hit.

Dreher was taken by aerial ambulance to to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center successful Idaho Falls pinch severe, life-threatening injuries. Marlow was taken by crushed ambulance to Bingham Memorial Hospital successful Blackfoot pinch insignificant injuries.

Dreher succumbed to his injuries respective hours later astatine nan hospital, according to nan release.

Idaho State Police are performing a clang reconstruction of nan incident. Bingham County continues to analyse nan crash, but its preliminary findings do not show immoderate conclusive grounds of negligence.