Winter weather brings wrecks
Becca Parsons Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 1 month AGO
Snowfall since yesterday has left hazardous winter road conditions for motorists to navigate this morning, causing several accidents.
Two Montana vehicles collided in Columbia Falls at about 10:40 a.m. today. A man was driving a silver Hyundai Elantra westbound on U.S. Highway 2 when a woman turned onto Hilltop Road and crashed into him.
“She pulled out in front of him,” Columbia Falls Police Officer Craig McConnell said.
The crash left the driver of the car sitting in the intersection with the front of his car destroyed.
The woman was driving a white Toyota Highlander eastbound on Highway 2 with another female passenger. The SUV ended up on the northwest corner of the intersection, barely missing an electrical pole and stopping shy of a fence.
At the time it was unknown whether alcohol was a factor in the crash, but McConnell said he didn’t believe it was.
Another call came in 30 minutes later for another vehicle accident. It was a minivan that ended up in a snowy ditch on Montana Highway 206.
No one was seriously injured in either wreck.
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