Recent Aurora Resident Killed In Montana Crash
Ben Beach Recently Moved To Billings
POSTED: 2:54 pm MDT September 14, 2010
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Big Horn County officials have released the names of two men killed after a rollover crash that ended with a big rig hitting their car. Coroner Terry Bullis said the crash shortly after midnight Sunday killed 19-year-old Ben Beach and 30-year-old Michael Pretty Paint. KTVQ-TV reported the driver was Beach, who recently moved to Billings from Aurora, Colo. The Montana Highway Patrol said the car was westbound on Interstate 90 north of Crow Agency when it drifted off the road and into the median before rolling into the eastbound lanes. The vehicle landed on its side with its lights off.
The semi driver didn't see the car and hit the vehicle. Both men were ejected from the car and died instantly. Neither were wearing seat belts, according to investigators.
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