Officials identify Wyoming man killed in Hardin crash

BILLINGS (AP) – Officials in Big Horn County have released the name of a 50-year-old Wyoming man who died in a weekend car crash near Hardin in southern Montana.

Coroner Terry Bullis tells The Billings Gazette that Kent Pyle of Gillette, Wyo., died at about 2 a.m. Saturday when his pickup drifted off the right side of U.S. Highway 384, took out about 100 feet of guardrail and rolled down a steep embankment.

Pyle was thrown from the vehicle.

The Montana Highway Patrol is still investigating the crash.