PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette The wreckage of a Nissan Rogue along Brushy Ridge Road in Fairfield Township after going airborne an estmated 100 yards off of Interstate 180 West, killing the Texas driver and injuring his female passager.

The man killed in Tuesday night’s violent crash just outside of Montoursville was from Texas and was killed instantly after the rental SUV he was driving on Interstate 180 West went airborne before crashing into an embankment below on Brushy Ridge Road, state police said. As

of Wednesday night, authorities were still trying to determine his identification and locate family members.

Investigators said the man and a 70-year-old woman in the vehicle with him were traveling through the area. Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said investigators have had difficulty getting him positively identified because he had no wallet, no driver’s license or any other form of identification on him. The Nissan Rogue he was driving was a rental

he picked up in Philadelphia, Kiessling said he was told.

Police have identified the woman passenger, but are withholding her name, saying only that she is from the Dallas, Texas area. She is hospitalized with serious injuries in the intensive care unit at UPMC Williamsport. An off-duty state trooper traveling east on I-180 saw the Rogue traveling at a high rate of speed and witnessed it “go airborne and over the overpass,” then

land along Brush Ridge Road below, Trooper Lauren Lesher said in a prepared statement to the media.

“The trooper immediately stopped, rendered aid and notified state police. The crash, which occurred about 6:30 p.m., took place a half a mile east of Montoursville. Both the

man and woman were trapped in the wreckage, but were quickly extricated by borough firefighters. Kiessling responded to the crash and pronounced the driver dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries. Investigators searched the crash site extensively for the

man’s wallet and for any form of identification he may have been carrying, but found nothing, Kiessling said. The Rogue was destroyed in the crash. Its engine landed under the overpass about 60 feet from the vehicle.