LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY, Mont. (NMB) – The Montana Highway Patrol reports that a 60-year-old Missoula man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday morning in Lewis and Clark County.
The incident occurred at mile marker 112 of Montana Highway 200, when a westbound Volvo semi-truck went off the left side of the roadway for unknown reasons, traveled through a fence, hit a ditch, and continued into a field where it came to rest.
The only occupant of the vehicle was the driver. He was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Excessive speed is a potential factor in the crash, which remains under investigation.
