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Friday, August 1, 2014
Officials in northeastern Montana have identified a 27-year-old Morehead, Kentucky, woman who died in a weekend rollover crash near Fort Peck. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Glenn Quinnell tells The Billings Gazette that Samantha J. Conn died just after 8:30 a.m. Saturday when she was thrown from a minivan as it rolled. The patrol says Conn's sister was northbound on Secondary Highway 24 when she became distracted by deer on the side of the road.
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Friday, May 23, 2014
A mother and her three young children were transported to the hospital after the SUV in which they were traveling rolled into a ditch near the intersection of Old Hardin Road and Calamity Jane Boulevard. According to Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Moran, the wreck occurred at about 10 p.m. on Saturday as the woman was traveling northbound on Calamity Jane Boulevard and "failed to negotiate a turn in the road."
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Yellowstone County officials have released the name of a man who died in a rollover crash on an Interstate 94 frontage road near Pompeys Pillar. The coroner's office tells KULR-TV that 24-year-old Josh Lowe of Custer died early Thursday. The patrol says the crash happened between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Troopers say Lowe was westbound on Custer Frontage Road when he lost control of his car, overcorrected and rolled the vehicle. Lowe was thrown from the car and died at the scene. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
A man accused of driving drunk and crashing into a Billings police car Tuesday morning made an initial court appearance Wednesday. Brett Allen Jones, 29, appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court on charges of felony criminal endangerment and a misdemeanor count of DUI, or an alternate misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol level greater than .08 percent. Judge Pedro R. Hernandez set bond at $10,000 and ordered Jones to appeared for arraignment in Yellowstone County District Court on May 2.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

First responders were unable to resuscitate the victim of a rollover crash on Interstate 94 between Billings and Huntley Sunday afternoon.

The incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m.

A Help Flight helicopter was dispatched to the scene, but was waved off when officials determined that the victim had died, said a Montana Highway Patrol Trooper.

The 38-year-old female driver from Ballantine, headed westbound toward Billings at the time of the incident, was the only person in the vehicle.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

A Billings man has been charged with drunken driving, after crashing his car into another vehicle Monday morning in the Billings Heights.

The call came in at 12:30 a.m., said the Billings Police Department.

Alexander Konecny, 28, was cited for DUI as well as possession of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia, according to police

The Buick Century he was driving collided with a Mitsubishi Eclipse, driven by a 20-year-old man, police said. Two male passengers also were in the vehicle.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

A 10-year-old girl was taken to Billings Clinic after being hit by a car Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m. in front of Miles Avenue School, 1601 Miles Ave.

The girl suffered no life threatening injuries, an officer who responded to the scene said.

The officer also said the driver was not at fault.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Two women suffered non-life threatening injuries Friday morning when their car was hit by another vehicle at the intersection of 56th Street West and Hesper Drive.

Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Craig Baum said the driver of a passenger car eastbound on Hesper was traveling the 60 mph speed limit when he went through a Stop sign and hit another car that was northbound on 56th. The accident happened at about 7:15 a.m.

The crash took out a Stop sign and both cars ultimately landed upright in a field on the northeast side of the intersection.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

A rollover crash at the intersection of Sixth Avenue North and North 31st Street sent one woman to the hospital with minor injuries.

The crash happened at about 11:15 a.m., said the Billings Police Department.

A woman driving a Honda SUV was northbound on North 31st when she was hit by a woman who ran a red light as she was headed westbound on Sixth Avenue North in a Ford minivan, he said.

The SUV rolled onto its roof, and firefighters had to remove part of the driver’s door to extricate her from the vehicle.

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Monday, March 3, 2014

A Billings man who died when his vehicle struck a city snow removal auger early Tuesday has been identified as 47-year-old Mark Hamilton.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the torso, said Chad Fehr, deputy Yellowstone County coroner.

The crash was reported at 12:37 a.m., according to a Billings Police Department press release from Sgt. Pat Curry.

Hamilton was headed west in his 1995 Ford Explorer and the snow removal vehicle was headed east when the two collided near the intersection of Underpass Avenue and Calhoun Lane, Curry said.