Emergency responders, including Worden Volunteer Fire Department personnel, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Kirk Robbins, and a Yellowstone County sheriff’s deputy, cut apart a Honda Accord to remove passenger Zackery Kirkpatrick. (Tana McNiven photo)
Visitation, Funeral planned for HP Student
UPDATE: Visitation will be Thursday September 24 from 6-8pm at Heights Family Funeral Home while the Funeral will be on Friday September 25th at 2pm at Heights Family Funeral home. YCN apologizes for the incorrect dates as printed in this week’s paper.
WORDEN — An 18-year old boy died Wednesday after being injured in a two-vehicle accident Thursday, Sept. 17 near Worden.
A spokesman for the Yellowstone County Coroner’s office on Wednesday said that Zackery Kirkpatrick, 18, died from blunt force trauma injuries he suffered in the accident.
He was a student at Huntley Project High School. The 15-year-old driver of the car in which he was a passenger has not been identified.
Carl Midgley, chief of the Worden Volunteer Fire Department, described the accident as a tragedy for everyone involved.
“I was first on the scene,” Midgley said Wednesday. He arrived to find a GMC Yukon and a Honda Accord in a hayfield off the northwest corner of the intersection of West I and North 12th roads.
Midgley said the Yukon struck the passenger side of the Honda.
“The impact was so hard that read more
