One Dead, One Injured in Motorcycle Crash Near Polson
Montana Highway Patrol said alcohol and speed are suspected factors after one rider died and another was hospitalized in the two-motorcycle crash.
- On Saturday, April 18, 2026, a 58-year-old Polson man died and a 45-year-old man was hospitalized after their motorcycles crashed on Highway 35 near Polson, Montana.
- The Montana Highway Patrol reported the two motorcyclists were traveling southbound when they failed to negotiate a left-hand curve, drifting into a guardrail.
- Both drivers were separated from their motorcycles during the impact, coming to rest on the opposite side of the guardrail in the northbound ditch.
- Alcohol and speed are suspected factors in the crash, according to the Montana Highway Patrol investigation.
- Authorities are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fatal collision on Highway 35.
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