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One dead in Montana 35 crash

Sam Wilson | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years AGO
by Sam Wilson
| April 21, 2016 5:13 PM

A man is dead after a logging truck and a pickup truck collided on Montana 35 Thursday afternoon south of Creston.

Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jason Fredenberg said the pickup truck was driving southbound when it appeared to have crossed the center line and struck the semi truck.

Neither vehicle had any passengers. He said the driver of the logging truck was uninjured.

Logs littered the highway at the scene of the crash, where the pickup truck had been pushed across the lane, colliding into the guardrail.

Emergency responders were dispatched to highway marker 38 on Montana 35 at about 4 p.m.

Montana Highway Patrol, Creston Fire Department, the county sheriff’s office and ambulances from Bigfork Fire Department responded.

Fredenberg said Montana Highway Patrol had not contacted the victim’s next of kin as of 5:15 p.m. on Thursday.

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