Rollover accident kills Trego man

Around midnight Wednesday, a Trego man died of injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle rollover north of Eureka earlier that night.

Randy Kirkedahl, 20, was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center by the ALERT Helicopter soon after the 9:35 p.m. crash, but he was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived at the hospital. 

Driver Dillon Peterson, 19, of Eureka was treated and released at the North Country Medical Clinic and rear passenger Cory Burk, 18, of Eureka was not injured. 

Peterson was driving eastbound in a Jeep along Lindsay Road when the vehicle drifted off the right edge of the roadway.

It traveled up a steep embankment. Coming down the other side, it overturned, ejecting Peterson and Kirkedahl, the front passenger.

Peterson was pinned partially under the overturned Jeep and Kirkedahl came to rest a short distance away.

Burk remained in the vehicle.

None of the Jeep’s occupants were wearing seat belts, according to Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Neil Duram, who also said alcohol was a factor in the collision.