A 72-year-old Jerome man is dead. He died late Sunday in a two-vehicle collision southwest of Jerome. Idaho State Police tells us it happened just east of North 500 West. It happened just before 8:30 p.m., when a 29-year-old Jerome man driving a 2006 Pontiac was headed west. His car crossed the center line.
It slammed into a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox, killing the driver of the second vehicle. Troopers say the dead man wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Two passengers in the Equinox were hospitalized. One was a 20-year-old man from Indiana, the other a 72-year-old man from Jerome. Troopers say both were also not wearing seatbelts.
The driver of the Pontiac was wearing a seatbelt. He was airlifted to a hospital…