Nails close down Montana 40
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 7 years, 1 month AGO
Cars drive along Montana 40 near the intersection with Whitefish Stage Road east of Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at hdesch@dailyinterlake.com or 406-758-4421. | March 5, 2018 2:29 PM
The Montana Highway Patrol has closed Montana 40 between Whitefish and Columbia Falls after someone dropped boxes of nails at several different locations on the roadway.
The road was closed beginning at 1:45 p.m. because it was “deemed too hazardous for travelers,” according to an advisory from the Montana Department of Transportation. At about 3:30 p.m. the road still remained closed.
Boxes of nails were reportedly blocking both lanes of travel and had fallen in several different locations beginning at the Montana 40 and U.S. Highway 93 intersection and continuing west until Hiltop Drive in Columbia Falls.
MHP and the Flathead County Sheriff’s office were on scene with the nails coned off and the highway department was en route to assist with cleanup.
The suspect vehicle was unknown.
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