Semi truck driver flown to hospital following crash
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The following is a news release from Idaho State Police.
On Saturday, April 28, at approximately 1:10 p.m., the Idaho State Police investigated a single vehicle injury crash northbound US20-26-93 at milepost 221, northeast of Carey.
Kirt Armistead, 48, of Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada, was driving in a 2013 Freightliner semi pulling a trailer. Armistead failed to negotiate a curve, overturned, and came to rest on the truck’s top on the right shoulder. Armistead was wearing a seatbelt.
Armistead was transported by air ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. This crash is under investigation by the Idaho State Police.