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An accident involving a single vehicle on Thursday morning killed a North Dakota family consisting of four people traveling east on I-94 at kilometer 6.3, just east of the Huntley exit. .
Sheriff Neil Kittelmann of the Carter County Sheriff's Office in Ekalaka confirmed Friday morning the identities of the four victims, Anthony and Chelsi Dean, of the Grand Forks, North Dakota area, and their 5-year-olds girls.
The family was driving a dark blue Toyota 4Runner in 2017 and was pulling another vehicle on a trailer around 7am. The 4Runner veered from the roadway to the left and in the median, Montana Highway Patrol reported.
The vehicle continued its course in the median for some distance before taking off from a wharf between the east and west bridge decks. The sport utility vehicle struck a concrete deck bracing pillar of the eastbound deck deck, then slid along the deck and stalled at Pryor Creek.
The four people died on the scene, said the MHP. Speed is believed to be a factor.
The MHP was informed of the accident Friday at 8 pm and arrived at the scene a few minutes later.
The family was classified as missing on Thursday, with messages posted on the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office Facebook page and on Facebook by Anthony Dean's mother, Leslie Dean-Wells, who lives in Caldwell, California. Idaho.
The Carter County Sheriff's Office was the primary agency responsible for law enforcement for research. In cooperation with the air force, search and rescue aircraft were dispatched to search for the vehicle.
According to information posted on Facebook and a TV report from KIVI-TV in Boise, Idaho, the family had visited Dean-Wells and left Caldwell Wednesday afternoon. They went to Ekalaka for a Thanksgiving dinner with Chelsi Dean's grandmother.
Leslie Dean-Wells told KIVI that the last time people heard about them was Thursday morning at 6:30 pm, Billings time, when Chelsi Dean called her grandmother and told her that she would be in Ekalaka in about four hours.
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