Officials ID victim of fatal crash on US 93
May 22—Authorities on Thursday identified the victim of a deadly May 17 crash in Lake County.
Elmo resident Sunshine Swalley, 22, was killed in the collision on U.S. 93 near Big Arm, according to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell.
According to the Highway Patrol crash report, Swalley was driving a Jeep Wrangler northbound on U.S. 93 at about 2:38 a.m. when she entered the southbound lane and collided head-on with a tanker trailer driven by a 50-year-old Kalispell man. Both vehicles caught fire and temporarily blocked the highway.
Swalley died at the scene and the tanker driver was transported to a hospital with injuries.
The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation by Montana Highway Patrol and the Lake County Coroner's Office.
Road conditions were wet at the time of the crash, according to the Highway Patrol report.
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