Havre man, Harlem woman killed in fiery crash

Staff and wire report

Two people were killed Saturday and another was injured in a fiery rollover crash near Havre.

The Montana Highway Patrol incident tracker reports the crash happened early Saturday on Montana Secondary Highway 232 north of Havre.

A 20-year-old Havre man was driving a Mini Cooper southbound between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. when it went off the road, struck an embankment, overturned and caught fire.

The driver and a passenger, a 20-year-old woman from Harlem, died at the scene. The woman was wearing a seat belt and whether the driver was wearing a seatbelt is unknown. Another passenger, a 26-year-old man from Chinook who was wearing a seat belt, was taken to the hospital in Havre for treatment of his injuries.

The names of the victims had not been released by printing deadline this morning.