The 17-year-old Capital High School girl who died Tuesday morning when her car was hit by a half-ton pickup truck has been identified as Angela Mae Dwyer.

Angela is the daughter of Patrick and Cora Dwyer, according to Lewis and Clark County Coroner Mickey Nelson.

Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike Swingley said that Angela Dwyer was driving a white 1988 Cutlass Sierra at 7:12 a.m., and meant to make a southbound turn from Sierra Drive onto Green Meadow Drive. She apparently didn't see the brown 1994 Chevy truck traveling north on Green Meadow Drive, and it struck her vehicle near the driver's door.

The speed limit on Green Meadow is 60 mph.

The driver of the pickup truck is identified as Vincent Whitehead of Helena by Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike Swingley. Whitehead, 47, was transported to St. Peter's Hospital, where he's currently undergoing medical treatment. Despite first reports from the scene, Whitehead was the only passenger in the truck.

Swingley theorized that dew on the Cutlass' windows, along with Capital High School cross-country running slogans that were written in red on the driver, passenger, front and back windows, may have contributed to the girl's inability to see the truck coming.

"We have no evidence of excessive speed by the pickup truck. There was no wrongdoing on his part," Swingley said. "I don't anticipate any charges at this point."

The girl was alive when officers and an ambulance arrived, but she succumbed to her injuries shortly thereafter and was pronounced dead at St. Peter's Hospital.

"We were all there pretty quickly, but there wasn't anything anyone could do," Swingley said.

Both drivers were wearing seatbelts.

Reporter Eve Byron: 447-4076 or eve.byron@helenair.com