VALIER, Mont. (NMB) – Two people were killed and one was injured in a rollover crash late Sunday morning in Pondera County.
The Montana Highway Patrol reports that the crash occurred at 10:59 AM at mile marker 8.9 of Secondary Highway 358, when a 20-year-old Browning man driving a Chevy Equinox southbound failed to negotiate a left curve. The driver overcorrected after the vehicle went off the right side of the roadway. The vehicle began rolling, struck a barbwire fence, came to rest on its wheels and caught fire.
None of the three occupants of the vehicle were wearing seatbelts. They were all ejected, and the driver and one passenger, a 26-year-old woman, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A second passenger, a 22-year-old-male, was transported to a local medical center for treatment.
The names of the victims have not been released.
Alcohol is a suspected factor in the crash.
The road was clear and dry.
