RED LODGE, Mont. (NMB) – A 55-year-old Billings man was killed in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Carbon County on Saturday afternoon.
The Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred at 2:33 PM at mile marker 83 of US-212, when the man, who was traveling southbound, did a “biker wave” to a northbound motorist. The man’s Harley-Davidson went off the road to the right, rotated clockwise and then overturned several times throwing the rider several feet from the motorcycle.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
Alcohol is a suspected factor in the crash.
The road was dry at the time of the crash.
