Box Elder woman causes crash killing one

Montana Highway Patrol reports that a 23-year-old Box Elder woman caused a crash over the weekend near Fort Benton that killed a Wolf Creek woman and sent four others including the Box Elder driver to the hospital.

Highway Patrol said it cannot release names of people involved in crashes. The Chouteau County coroner had not returned a call requesting the names by printing deadline this morning.

Highway Patrol said the Box Elder woman was driving north at a high rate of speed on U.S. Highway 87 near Mile Marker 37 in a Ford F150 pickup truck when she tried to pass another vehicle at 1:20 p.m. Sunday, and ran into a southbound Chevrolet Silverado carrying four Wolf Creek residents, with both vehicles ending up rolling onto their tops.

The 44-year-old woman in the Silverado who was killed was not wearing a seat belt and was partially ejected and pronounced dead at the scene.

Another woman in the Silverado, 19, also was not wearing a seat belt and was partially ejected.

All other people involved in the crash were wearing seat belts, Highway Patrol reports. The survivors from the Silverado were taken to a medical center in Fort Benton then transferred to a Great Falls hospital.

A passenger of the F150, a 37-year-old Box Elder man, was lifeflighted to a Great Falls hospital and the driver of that vehicle was transported by ambulance to a Great Falls hospital.

Highway Patrol reports that drugs or alcohol are not believed to be a factor in the crash, but speed is.