ROCKLAND -- One of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Idaho history was killed when he was hit by a truck while chasing a loose cow on a highway near his family's ranch.

Sixty-six-year-old Ron Kress was struck on State Highway 37, near Rockland in southeast Idaho, just after dark Friday.

Kress won 399 games and lost 155 over a 39-year coaching career in Firth, Shelley and finally Pocatello, where he retired in 2004 following a seven-year stint at Pocatello High School.

He was inducted into the Idaho High School Activities Association Hall of Fame in August.

Kress was a fourth-generation rancher. He was killed by a truck driven by a man from Roy, Utah. No citations were issued in the accident.