Multiple accidents on dangerous day

A flurry of minor weather-related accidents flooded emergency responders between 1 and 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Most accidents involved single vehicles that slid off the road or rolled over.

In addition to the accidents, two Montana 35 trees fell into the road and into area power lines during the flurry.

The most-serious incident appeared to have involved two-vehicles and took place at about 1:45 p.m. on Highway 28 near mile marker 44.

Emergency dispatchers reported that two vehicles were traveling along the highway when one decided to pass the other. During that passing event, one vehicle lost control of their car and the accident occurred.

Shortly thereafter another two-vehicle accident took place at the intersection of Highway 93 and 28.

Emergency dispatchers received a call for a downed tree crossing both lanes of Montana 35 at mile marker 19 at about 1 p.m.

Crews from Bigfork Fire Department responded to the scene but drivers experienced extended delays.

At Montana 35 mile marker 7 a second tree fell into a power line on the northbound side of the street. The southbound side remained open for traffic. Emergency responders and Mission Valley Power crews responded to that scene.

A rollover accident was called into emergency dispatchers for an accident at the top of Jette Hill just before the store in the northbound lane at about 2:08 p.m. that turned out to be a truck that slid into a ditch. With the help of emergency responders the uninjured driver was able to extricate his truck and return to the road.

In Ronan, a one-vehicle rollover accident was called in on Roundbutte Road near the golf course. When emergency dispatchers arrived, they reported the car was unoccupied.

Another vehicle was reported in a ditch near the intersection of Old Highway 93 and the cemetery.