By Associated Press - Saturday, June 24, 2017

ATHOL, Idaho (AP) - Police say an Idaho man has died in a traffic accident on U.S. 95 near Athol.

State police identified the motorist in the Friday afternoon one-vehicle crash as 86-year-old James W. Brown, of Cocolalla.

They say he was driving north when his station wagon went off the road onto the left shoulder, hit a guardrail then came to rest near a concrete barrier on the right shoulder. He was pronounced dead at the scene.



Police say a passenger - 84-year-old Patricia E. Brown, of Cocolalla - wasn’t injured. Police didn’t say if or how the two were related.

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