{"id":132351,"date":"2026-08-27T05:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/27\/billings-man-dies-in-fergus-county-crash\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2029-02-12T05:37:13","slug":"billings-man-dies-in-fergus-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/27\/billings-man-dies-in-fergus-county-crash\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Billings Man Dies In  Fergus County Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Billings man died near Christina, north of Lewistown, in a midnight crash Friday, reports  the Montana Highway  Patrol.<br \/>\n\t  According to a MHP press release, the man who was driving a Ford F-350 pickup, failed to properly turn on a left-hand curve and drove off the right side of the road. He tried to get back on the road, overcorrected and hit a refl ector post as he drove off the left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132850,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132351\/revisions\/132850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132351"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=132351"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=132351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}