BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Montana Highway Patrol says a 49-year-old South Dakota woman died Saturday morning after the semi-tanker she was in crashed 10 miles east of Lewistown in central Montana.
Trooper Scott Fox tells the Billings Gazette that the 52-year-old male driver from Mandan, N.D., swerved and braked to avoid a deer at about 2:30 a.m. on U.S. Highway 87.
Fox says the liquid in the tanker surged forward and pushed the vehicle across the road, the vehicle rolled on its top, and the trailer broke loose and rolled into a field.
Fox says the woman was crushed in the impact and died at the scene.
He says the driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown to be treated and released.
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