LIBBY – Four people including two young children have been killed in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 2 near Libby.
The Montana Highway Patrol says Saturday night’s crash occurred after a car driven by a 17-year-old male drifted off the road and he overcorrected, causing it to flip and enter the oncoming lane.
The car struck a 1996 Ford Aerostar driven by 59-year-old Ramona Bauer.
Trooper Bryce Ford says Bauer and her two passengers, a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were killed. All were from Columbia Falls.
Ford says the 17-year-old driver of Libby was also killed.
No other names were immediately released. Ford says neither alcohol nor speed were factors in the crash, which occurred at mile marker 72 around 6 p.m. The highway was dry.