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Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low around 50F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph..
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low around 50F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.
A semitruck pulling a wide load south on U.S. Highway 287 on March 3 about 4.5 miles south of the Choteau city limits stop to survey the damage to a energy-absorbing guardrail after the lower right-side portion of the big rig hit the guardrail end-on. The mangled guardrail lies crumpled up after an oversized load hit it on March 3. The guardrail is designed to curl away from the roadway. Acantha photos by Nancy Thornton
A semitruck pulling a wide load south on U.S. Highway 287 on March 3 about 4.5 miles south of the Choteau city limits stop to survey the damage to a energy-absorbing guardrail after the lower right-side portion of the big rig hit the guardrail end-on. The mangled guardrail lies crumpled up after an oversized load hit it on March 3. The guardrail is designed to curl away from the roadway. Acantha photos by Nancy Thornton
A semitruck pulling a wide load south on U.S. Highway 287 on March 3 about 4.5 miles south of the Choteau city limits hit a guardrail damaging about 30 feet of energy-absorbing galvanized metal.
The accident occurred about 10:45 a.m.
A front pilot car was traveling ahead of the big rig flagging vehicles to move off the highway. Very few vehicles were traveling north at that time of day although a grain truck with pup had to turn around and find another way into town while the big rig was stopped.
The mangled guardrail, designed to curl away from the roadway, was hit end-on, but the identical guardrail on the northbound side of the highway was undamaged in the accident.
The oversized load of the semitruck extended out over the pavement when the big rig was only in the southbound lane, but it had about a one-foot clearance on either side of the highway when the semitruck traveled on the centerline.
Teton County Deputy Mike Stanhope responded to the accident and waited for the Montana Highway Patrol officer to arrive. A Montana Department of Transportation crew responding with equipment, detached the curled W-beam of the guardrail about two hours later.
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