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One person was killed in a head-on collision with a semi-truck carrying wood chips Wednesday afternoon, Montana Highway Patrol said.

A vehicle traveling the wrong way on Interstate 90 struck a semi-trailer on Wednesday afternoon in a crash that closed all lanes of the highway, authorities said.

Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Shawn Smally confirmed one fatality late Wednesday afternoon.

Kaci Briggeman got on I-90 at the Orange Street exit and was headed east when she saw the vehicle, a black sedan, driving parallel to her from the westbound lane. At first, she said the vehicle appeared to be trying to avoid other drivers.

“They were kind of trying to drive on the shoulder and stay out of the way,” she said. “I just knew that he’s going to hit somebody so I was not going full speed. I didn’t want to be next to that.”

Briggeman said at some point, the driver seemed to change course and began speeding toward oncoming traffic, at one point driving in between two oncoming vehicles through what she called an already-congested roadway. As the driver approached the bend between the Van Buren exit and East Missoula, the semi came around the corner.