Ginger Wilborn, 30, died late Thursday afternoon at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
She and 42-year-old Roy Moore - both of Hungry Horse - were thrown from the truck when it crashed into the patrol car of trooper Evan Schneider.
Officials were on scene with an accident reconstruction team within hours, and continue to investigate the accident. Currently, they're searching for a light-colored car - captured on Schneider's on-board video camera - that was in front of the trooper at the time of the crash, hoping the driver can supply some information as to what caused the wreck.
Investigators have said Schneider was westbound when he spotted an oncoming vehicle make a traffic violation. The trooper turned around, and began pursuit. Schneider passed two vehicles in a multi-lane section of highway, and was traveling a two-lane stretch with flashing lights on when the pickup crossed the center line and struck him head-on.
Schneider and Moore died at the scene, and Wilborn was flown to Kalispell Regional Medical Center, where she died Thursday.
Services for Wilborn have not been announced, but a memorial service for Moore is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at the South Fork Saloon in Martin City.
Funeral services for 29-year-old Schneider are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Kalispell's Christian Center Assembly of God Church. From there, a large procession is expected to travel to Glacier Memorial Gardens.
The procession, which should begin about 4:30, is expected to snarl traffic on Highway 93 north of Kalispell, and local police warn that motorists might consider alternative routes at that time.
Although Schneider is just the sixth trooper to die in the line of duty since MHP's creation 73 years ago, he is the second killed on Flathead Valley roads in less than a year.
On Oct. 9, 2007, trooper David Graham died in a crash two miles north of Kalispell, when an oncoming driver crossed lanes.
Woman killed, 3 injured in crash near Dillon
By the Associated Press
DILLON - A woman from Singapore was killed and three other people were hurt in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 15 near Dillon.
The Montana Highway Patrol says the crash was reported shortly before midnight Thursday.
The patrol says the vehicle was northbound when it drifted into the median. The driver overcorrected and the vehicle overturned twice before coming to rest on its wheels.
A 24-year-old passenger, who was not wearing a seat belt, was killed. One of the injured passengers was flown by medical helicopter to Missoula while the other two were taken to the hospital in Dillon.
The patrol said all four are from Singapore and had been working in Idaho. Their names were being withheld until family members could be notified.
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