Billings,MT : Billings man hospitalized after running stop sign, crashing car into semi trailer on Tuesday, 8th May 2018

A man was hospitalized Tuesday morning after he apparently ran a stop sign on Billings' West End and crashed his car into the trailer of a semi.

The 20-year-old Billings man had to be extricated from the car, a Kia Sportage that had become partially lodged under the trailer, pushing the windshield and the top of the car back to the rear passenger doors.

The man was conscious and talking to medical responders when he was loaded into an ambulance bound for Billings Clinic, said Billings Police Department Sgt. Shane Winden. He appeared to have broken bones and possible head injuries. The extent of his condition was not immediately available, said Billings Fire Department Battalion Chief Ed Regele.

The crash occurred just before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Daniel Street and Monad Road.

The man had been driving westbound on Monad toward the intersection, Winden said, where a pickup was already stopped at the four-way stop sign in front of him.

The man apparently didn't see the pickup until it was too late, swerving around the truck and into the grass, then into the intersection. The semi had partially cleared the intersection, heading north on Daniel Street when the man's vehicle collided into the trailer.

Winden said the semi driver had stopped at the stop sign and didn't appear to have done anything wrong, but dragged the car a short distance before coming to a stop just north of the intersection.

It wasn't immediately clear why the man failed to stop behind the pickup, Winden said.

No one else was in the Kia, and the driver of the semi was uninjured.

American Medical Response also responded to the crash.


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Billings man hospitalized after running stop sign, crashing car into semi trailer