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A boat and trailer traveled for about a half-mile, sideswiping a car along the way, down a busy downtown street Wednesday afternoon after they became detached from the truck pulling them.
A boat and trailer traveled for about a half-mile, sideswiping a car along the way, down a busy downtown street Wednesday afternoon after they became detached from the truck pulling them.
Billings Police Lt. RD Harper said a 41-year-old Billings man, whose name has not been released, was driving a Dodge pickup truck southbound on North 27th Street when the trailer holding the 15-foot Bayliner motorboat became unhitched at about 4:40 p.m. near Montana State University Billings.
The trailer and boat rolled south on 27th, crossed into the oncoming traffic lane and sideswiped a northbound Saab passenger car near the intersection with Mountain View Boulevard. The trailer continued to head down 27th and the boat eventually fell off.
A northbound Ford passenger car ran over the trailer’s tongue while the boat traveled south for another 0.3 miles, Harper said, before finally coming to a stop in the driveway of several businesses at the intersection of 27th and 12th Avenue North.
“We were working and looked out the window,” said Jamie Conrad, who owns Willow Creek Day Spa, at 1139 N. 27th St. “It was like, ‘There goes a boat and it’s going down the wrong way.’”
A group of softball players from MSUB was able to get the boat out of the road, Harper said, and it was later loaded back up onto the trailer.
No injuries were reported and no citations were issued.
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