POSTED: 3:53 pm MDT September 5, 2010UPDATED: 3:56 pm MDT September 5, 2010
PARADISE, Mont. -- Montana Highway Patrol wants to know what caused a fatal crash near Paradise. Two people from Columbia Falls were killed in a head-on crash on State Highway 135.A 78-year-old man was driving an Oldsmobile Cutlass with a 60-year-old female passenger when the car veered off the highway. It swerved back onto the road crossing into oncoming traffic and hit a GMC Yukon head-on.The couple died on scene. The three occupants of the GMC were taken to St. Patrick hospital in Missoula. Their conditions haven't been released.Highway patrol couldn't say if speed or alcohol were factors in the crash. It is also unknown if the deceased were wearing seatbelts. The accident happened just before 5:30 Saturday afternoon at mile marker 18.
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