The driver who was injured in a one-car crash near Freeland Hall on Jan. 8 has died.

James Strueber died Thursday, Jan. 21, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bellingham, the Washington State Patrol reported in a press release this week. He was 72.

Strueber was eastbound on Shoreview Drive in Freeland in the early afternoon when his Ford F-250 crossed the center line and struck a madrona tree. State police say he suffered a “medical episode.”

Emergency responders found him unresponsive and attempted CPR for several minutes before loading him into an ambulance bound for Whidbey General Hospital. He was then taken to St. Joseph’s.

Drugs and alcohol were not involved, and Strueber was wearing his seatbelt, the state patrol reported.