(Mapleton, OR) -- A driver was killed in a crash into the Siuslaw River Sunday afternoon. Oregon State Police say 72-year-old Benjamin Beecher, of Florence, was driving westbound on Highway 36 when he crossed the centerline of an icy curve and struck an eastbound car. Beecher's Ford Explorer went airborne and crashed, fully submerged, into the Siuslaw River. He was dead when members of the Lane County dive team recovered his body. The driver and passenger of the car that was hit were hospitalized with serious injuries.