Name of woman killed in Beaver Creek crash released

Officials have released the name of a women killed in an early morning one-vehicle crash in Beaver Creek Park Tuesday that sent two others to the hospital.

Hill County Sheriff and Coroner Jamie Ross said the woman killed in the crash was June Marie Sutherland of Box Elder, 40.

Alcohol, high speed and lack of seatbelt use are suspected to be involved, the Montana Highway Patrol said, adding that road conditions were bare and mostly dry and none of the four passengers in the car were wearing seatbelts.

The MHP said the Chevrolet Tahoe in the crash was headed northbound on Montana Secondary Highway 234, known as Beaver Creek Highway, near Mooney Coulee Road when the driver failed to negotiate a left turn and went off the road, striking a group of trees and rolling an undetermined number of times before coming to a rest on the driver’s side.

The driver, a 35-year-old man from Deer Lodge, was not injured and stayed at the scene, while a 31-year-old man and 36-year-old woman, both of Box Elder, were taken to Northern Montana Hospital, Highway Patrol said.