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The Roundup man who was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in plunged into the Musselshell River early Thursday has been identified as 32-year-old Jesse Lee Adolph, 32.
The cause of death is not yet known, said Sheriff Woodrow Weitzeil. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday.
Adolph and two other men were headed northbound in a small SUV when the 21-year-old driver failed to negotiate a sharp turn on Parrot Creek Road, said Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Matt Christensen.
Officials tell NBC Montana the name of a man who died in a fatal crash Monday evening.
Montana Highway Patrol says alcohol was a factor in the crash and the victim was not wearing a seat belt.
The 61-year-old Missoula man was Robert Lambert.
NBC Montana was told his pickup went off an embankment on a county road south of Clinton area.
Montana Highway Patrol says Lambert was traveling westbound on Schwartz Creek Road at about 7 p.m. Monday night when his pickup drove off the south shoulder of the road.
Montana Highway Patrol released the name of the victim killed in a motorcycle crash on Highway 12 Sunday. Ryan Cole, 28, was from Missoula.
The crash happened near mile marker 10, east of the Montana-Idaho state line.
MHP says Cole was eastbound shortly after 6 p.m., when he hit a guardrail and traveled along it for about 400 feet. He was thrown from the motorcycle and over the guardrail, suffering fatal injuries.
Highway 12 is known as a winding road -- popular with drivers and bikers, but also dangerous.