Driver dies in Valley County car crash

GREAT FALLS – A man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Valley County on Thursday, October 24, 2024.

It happened shortly after 2 p.m. near the intersection of US Highway 117 and North River Road/Tiger Butte Road, several miles south of the city of Nashua.

According to the Montana Highway Patrol, a 60-year-old man from Glasgow was driving a Ford F-350 pickup truck north on North River Road, pulling a flathead trailer with bales of hay.

The truck crossed the center line, crashed into a ditch and hit a barbed wire fence before coming to a stop.

The MHP says the man possibly suffered a medical emergency before the crash.

The driver was the only occupant of the vehicle.

Alcohol and speed were not factors in the accident; The man was not wearing a seat belt, according to the MHP.

The man’s name has not been released.