BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A 70-year-old man died when his pickup truck was struck by an eastbound freight train in Big Horn County, the Montana Highway Patrol said.
The collision happened at 6:42 p.m. Sunday at a crossing southwest of Hardin. No one else was injured.
The man’s name has not been released. He was not wearing a seatbelt, the patrol said.
Trooper Joshua French’s report said the gravel road was dry and that drugs, alcohol and speed were not suspected factors in the crash, The Billings Gazette reported.
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